Ida Clyde Clarke

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]

As contributing editor to Pictorial Review, she founded a $5,000 annual award for woman of achievement.[4]

In 1932 her son, Haden Clarke, was a ghostwriter engaged to write the memoirs of the aviatrix Jessie Miller. After a relationship ensued between Clarke and Miller, Haden 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

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

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. Therese L. Lueck (1996). "National Business Woman". In Kathleen L. Endres; Therese L. Lueck (ed.). 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

My Suffrage Creed by Ida Clyde Clarke
American Women and the World War by Ida Clyde Clarke

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[Mooney-Melvin1986-1] 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.

[Lloyd1981-2] James B. Lloyd (1981). Lives of Mississippi Authors, 1817-1967. Univ. Press of Mississippi. pp. 93–4. ISBN 978-1-61703-418-3.

[EndresLueck1996-3] The magazine was renamed National Business Woman in 1956. Therese L. Lueck (1996). "National Business Woman". In Kathleen L. Endres; Therese L. Lueck (ed.). Women's Periodicals in the United States: Social and Political Issues. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 206–214. ISBN 978-0-313-28632-2.

[Blair1999-4] 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.