Rheta Childe Dorr | |
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Born | Rheta Louise Child November 2, 1866 Omaha, Nebraska, US |
Died | August 8, 1948 | (aged 81)
Occupation(s) | Author, journalist, and political activist |
Employer(s) | New York Evening Post, Hampton's Broadway Magazine, New York Evening Mail |
Spouse | John Pixley Dorr |
Rheta Louise Childe Dorr (1868–1948) was an American journalist, suffragist newspaper editor, writer, and political activist. Dorr is best remembered as one of the leading female muckraking journalists of the Progressive era and as the first editor of the influential newspaper The Suffragist.