Ida Clyde Clarke (nee Gallaher; 1878–1956) was an American journalist, writer and suffragist.[1] "She was a prolific and multi-faceted writer, producing works of both fiction and non-fiction studies of community organization and feminism".[2]

Life

In 1920 she founded a monthly magazine The Independent Woman, editing it until 1921.[3]

She was a contributing editor to Pictorial Review and founded its $5,000 annual award for women of achievement.[4]

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.[5]

Works

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ James B. Lloyd (1981). Lives of Mississippi Authors, 1817-1967. Univ. Press of Mississippi. pp. 93–4. ISBN 978-1-61703-418-3.
  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.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ Chrystopher J. Spicer, The Flying Adventures of Jessie Keith "Chubbie" Miller: The Southern Hemisphere's First International Aviatrix, McFarland & Company, 2017.

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