Alexandra Gripenberg
Finnish author and women’s rights activist
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Jane Cunningham Croly
American author, and journalist, better known as Jennie June
Ursula Hicks
Ursula Kathleen Hicks was the first woman editor of a major journal, The Review of Economic Studies.
Edith Abbott
Edith Abbott, an economist, social worker and women’s equality campaigner, was the first American woman to be appointed the dean of a graduate school in the United States.
Frona Eunice Wait
American journalist
Zitkala-Ša
Zitkála-Šá (“Red Bird”), also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, was a Native American musician, writer and activist who fought for women’s suffrage and Indigenous voting rights in the early 20th century. Her writings and activism led to citizenship and voting rights for not only women, but all Indigenous people.
Mary Mapes Dodge
American editor, author and poet
Sorcha Ní Ghuairim
Columnist, newspaper editor and promoter of the Irish language
Sara Coleridge
English writer
Hedda Dyson
Throughout her editorship, the Woman’s Weekly increased its circulation rapidly, from 22,447 in 1934 to 32,202 by the end of the decade, reaching 67,663 by 1948.