Rheta Childe Dorr

Rheta Childe Dorr
Born
Rheta Louise Child

(1866-11-02)November 2, 1866
DiedAugust 8, 1948(1948-08-08) (aged 81)
Occupation(s)Author, journalist, and political activist
Employer(s)New York Evening Post, Hampton's Broadway Magazine, New York Evening Mail
SpouseJohn 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.