Marie Mattingly Meloney

Marie Mattingly Meloney c. 1921

Marie Mattingly Meloney (1878–1943), who used Mrs. William B. Meloney as her professional and social name, was "one of the leading woman journalists of the United States",[1] a magazine editor and a socialite who in the 1920s organized a fund drive to buy radium for Marie Curie and began a movement for better housing. In the 1930s, nicknamed Missy, she was a friend and confidante of Eleanor Roosevelt.[2][3]

  1. ^ "Mrs. W.B. Meloney, Noted Editor, Dies",oooo The New York Times, June 24, 1943
  2. ^ "Knapp's Week", Time, February 25, 1935
  3. ^ "Knapp's Week", Time, February 25, 1935, on SpoonerCentral.com