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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