Sarah Field Splint

Sarah Field Splint

Sarah Field Splint at work

Splint at work
Born 1883
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania[1]
Died 1959
Occupation Feminist writer
Language American English
Nationality American
Ethnicity White
Literary movement Second Wave Feminism

Sarah Field Splint (1883 – 1959) was an American author, editor, domestic science consultant, and feminist.[2][3]

Biography

Sarah Field Splint, of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, was an alumnus of Colby College.[1] She served as chief of the Home Conservation Division of the Food Conservation Division of the United States Food Administration,[4] designing the USFA uniform, later known as the Hoover apron.[5] Splint was an editor of Woman's Home Companion, Managing Editor of The Woman's Magazine,[6] and a member of the staff of The Delineator. She associated with feminist group, Heterodoxy, having favored suffrage. Splint donated to her alma mater's library a collection of the works of Sarah Orne Jewett.[1] She died in 1959.

Selected works

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Colby Alumnus Vol . 40, No. 1: October 1950". Colby College. p. 19. Retrieved 15 November 2016.
  2. Driver 2008, p. 659.
  3. Marks 2010, p. 27.
  4. Rossiter 1984, p. 120.
  5. Goldstein 2012, p. 50, 190, 314.
  6. The Woman's Magazine 1914, p. front cover.

Bibliography

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