As Quinn describes their relationship, Hick encouraged Eleanor to step forward in many respects, particularly her writing: From late 1935 until 1962, Eleanor wrote "My Day," a syndicated column that appeared six days a week most years. She gave up journalism to work for the Roosevelt administration, traveling the country to report for Harry Hopkins on poverty and the impact of New Deal programs.Įleanor was a reluctant first lady, a reserved woman with an autocratic mother-in-law, and wounded by the revelation of her husband's affair with a younger staff member. Their rapport grew until Hick realized she was becoming too close to cover Eleanor effectively. Sensing Eleanor's potential greatness, Hick wangled the assignment of covering her regularly. Hick met Eleanor while interviewing her during her husband's 1932 presidential campaign. Hick jumped to the Minneapolis Tribune in 1917, where she would later cover University of Minnesota football for several seasons, then joined The Associated Press in New York. Citing Hick's unpublished autobiography, Beasley also notes the reporter's claim that she once "provoked the ire of the grande dames of the Schlitz brewery family." Journalism scholar Maurine Beasley reports that Hick proved her mettle as a news reporter to the Sentinel city editor by volunteering for night assignments. Hick joined the Milwaukee Sentinel as society editor circa 1915, the only job open to women at most newspapers then. Later, she amused or revenged herself by using the byline Lorena Lawrence for some articles. She attended Lawrence University in Appleton two different times, but felt out of place and left. Kind relatives helped her get through high school.
She subsisted as a maid, once working for a demanding woman who made her scrub floor and pantry in the morning before she could leave for high school. Her mother died when Lorena was 13 Addison then married a hostile woman who told Lorena to find another place to live. He beat both Lorena and her mother, Anna the girl often escaped into reading. She loved the farm, but the family left it when she was eight for South Dakota, where Addison tried different jobs and, Quinn reports, failed at them. Lorena Hickok was born on March 7, 1893, in East Troy. "I want to put my arms around you and kiss you at the corner of your mouth," Hick wrote in her reply. " … The only real news is 'I love you' and two weeks and three days from now you will be here and it makes me all excited inside to think about!," Eleanor wrote Hick as Christmas of 1933 approached. Quinn frequently quotes from letters in which they freely expressed affection for each other. Interest in Hick, as friends called her, has grown since the FDR Presidential Library opened the Eleanor Roosevelt-Hickok correspondence to researchers in 1978.
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