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Alexandra Cox

Alexandra Cox

Alexandra Cox is criminologist at the University of Reading in the U.K. She received her PhD from the University of Cambridge, where she was a Gates Cambridge Scholar. She is the author of Trapped in a Vice: The Consequences of Confinement for Young People (Rutgers University Press).

A statue of Clementina Rind, a trailblazing publisher and printer who took over the Virginia Gazette after her husband's death, is featured in the Virginia Women's Monument.

Newly Discovered Letters Illuminate the Life of a Female Printer Who Published Revolutionary Texts and Pushed the Colonies Toward Independence

As Virginia’s first female newspaper publisher, Clementina Rind emphasized women’s viewpoints and collaborated with prominent politicians like Thomas Jefferson