Editor Archives - Page 8 of 10

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.

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.