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Ida Clyde Clarke

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Clarke in a 1921 magazine.

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

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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 US$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

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  • 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

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  1. CLARKE, Ida Clye (Mrs. Thomas H. Clarke), in Who's Who in America (vol. 14, 1926 edition); p. 463
  2. 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.
  3. James B. Lloyd (1981). Lives of Mississippi Authors, 1817-1967. Univ. Press of Mississippi. pp. 93–4. ISBN 978-1-61703-418-3.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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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