Ida Clyde Clarke
Ida Clyde Clarke (nee Gallaher; March 24, 1878 in Meridian, Mississippi[1]–1956) was an American journalist, writer and suffragist.[2] "She was a prolific and multi-faceted writer, producing works of both fiction and non-fiction studies of community organization and feminism".[3]
Life
[edit]In 1920 she founded a monthly magazine The Independent Woman, editing it until 1921.[4]
She was a contributing editor to Pictorial Review and founded its $5,000 annual award for women of achievement.[5]
In 1932 her son, Haden Clarke, was a ghostwriter engaged to write the memoirs of the aviator Jessie Miller. After a relationship ensued between Clarke and Miller, Clarke was killed by a gunshot wound to the head. The gun belonged to Miller's partner Bill Lancaster, who also admitted forging suicide notes, but Lancaster was acquitted of murder charges.[6]
Works
[edit]- All about Nashville, a complete historical guide book to the city, 1912
- Record no. 33, 1915
- American women and the world war, 1918
- The little democracy: a text-book on community organization, 1918.
- (ed.) Women of 1923, International, 1923. (Subsequent editions appeared in 1924, 1925 and 1928.)
- Uncle Sam needs a wife, 1925
- (with A. O Bowden) Tomorrow's Americans: a practical study in student self-government, 1930
- Men that wouldn't stay dead: twenty-six authentic ghost stories, 1936
References
[edit]- ^ CLARKE, Ida Clye (Mrs. Thomas H. Clarke), in Who's Who in America (vol. 14, 1926 edition); p. 463
- ^ Patricia Mooney-Melvin, ed. (1986). "Clarke, Ida Clyde 1878-1956". American Community Organizations: A Historical Dictionary. Greenwood Press. pp. 33–34. ISBN 978-0-313-24053-9.
- ^ James B. Lloyd (1981). Lives of Mississippi Authors, 1817-1967. Univ. Press of Mississippi. pp. 93–4. ISBN 978-1-61703-418-3.
- ^ The magazine was renamed National Business Woman in 1956. Endres, Kathleen L.; Lueck, Therese L., eds. (1996). "National Business Woman". Women's Periodicals in the United States: Social and Political Issues. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 206–214. ISBN 978-0-313-28632-2.
- ^ Emily Newell Blair (1999). Bridging Two Eras: The Autobiography of Emily Newell Blair, 1877-1951. University of Missouri Press. p. 165. ISBN 978-0-8262-6092-5.
- ^ Chrystopher J. Spicer, The Flying Adventures of Jessie Keith "Chubbie" Miller: The Southern Hemisphere's First International Aviatrix, McFarland & Company, 2017.
External links
[edit]- My Suffrage Creed by Ida Clyde Clarke
- American Women and the World War by Ida Clyde Clarke
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