Dorothy Cornish

Dorothy Helen Cornish (1 October 1870 – 7 October 1945) was an English Montessori educator, suffragist, writer and editor of the genderqueer feminist journal Urania.

Dorothy Cornish
Born
Dorothy Helen Cornish

(1870-10-01)1 October 1870
Sixhills, England
Died7 October 1945(1945-10-07) (aged 75)
Sidmouth, England
OccupationMontessori educator, activist, writer
Known forFounding and editing Urania

Life and work

Cornish was born in Sixhills, Lincolnshire on 1 October 1870. Her father was Rev. Frank Fortescue, who was H.M. Inspector of Schools. She moved with her family to Manchester at the age of six for her father's work.[1]

Cornish worked as a Montessori educator and acted as interpreter for Maria Montessori for many of her English courses.[2]

Cornish was a member of the Aëthnic Union, along with Eva Gore-Booth, Esther Roper, Thomas Baty and Jessey Wade. In 1916, they co-founded the feminist journal Urania and she contributed as editor.[3] She moved to Siena in around 1895 and spent most of her life in Italy,[1] where she continued her work as editor of Urania.[4]

In 1914, she signed the Open Christmas Letter along with 100 other suffragists, including Gore-Booth and Roper.[5]

Cornish was a member of the Brontë Society[1] and in 1940, she published a novel about the Brontë sisters;[6] she also translated two French essays by Emily Brontë.[7]

Cornish died at Sidmouth, Devon, on 7 October 1945.[1]

Bibliography
  • Verses (San Bernardino: Pontifical Printing-Office, 1904)
  • Sealed Poetry by Robert Burns (editor and translator; Firenze: Landi, 1908)
  • These Were the Brontes: A Novel (New York: Macmillan Co., 1940)

References
  1. "Some Notes on Contributors". Brontë Society Transactions. 12 (2): 131. 1952.
  2. Kramer, Rita (2017). Maria Montessori: A Biography. New York: Diversion Books. ISBN 978-1-63576-109-2.
  3. Tiernan, Sonja (2016-05-16). Radical sexual politics and post-war religion. Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0-7190-9499-6.
  4. Clay, Catherine, ed. (2018). Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939: The Interwar Period. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. p. 397. ISBN 978-1-4744-1254-4.
  5. Oldfield, Sybil, ed. (2003). International Woman Suffrage: November 1914-September 1916. Abingdon: Taylor & Francis. p. 228. ISBN 978-0-415-25738-1.
  6. O'Connor, Sarah; Shepard, Christopher C., eds. (2009). Women, Social and Cultural Change in Twentieth Century Ireland: Dissenting Voices?. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 173. ISBN 978-1-4438-0693-0.
  7. "Museum Attendances: Some Comparisons". Brontë Society Transactions. 11 (5): 336–341. 1950-01-01. doi:10.1179/030977650796550074. ISSN 0309-7765.
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