Dorothy Cornish
Born
Dorothy Helen Cornish

(1870-10-01)1 October 1870
Sixhills, England
Died7 October 1945(1945-10-07) (aged 75)
Sidmouth, England
Occupation(s)Montessori educator, activist, translator, writer
Known forCo-founding and editing Urania

Dorothy Helen Cornish (1 October 1870 – 7 October 1945) was an English Montessori educator, suffragist, translator, writer and editor of the feminist gender studies journal Urania.

Biography

Cornish was born in Sixhills, Lincolnshire on 1 October 1870. Her father was Rev. Frank Fortescue Cornish, who was H.M. Inspector of Schools. She moved with her family to Manchester at the age of six for her father's work.[1]

Cornish worked as a Montessori educator and acted as interpreter for Maria Montessori for many of her English courses.[2]

Cornish was a member of the Aëthnic Union, along with Eva Gore-Booth, Esther Roper, Thomas Baty and Jessey Wade. In 1916, they co-founded the feminist journal Urania and she contributed as editor.[3] Cornish opposed children being indoctrinated into gender roles.[4] She moved to Siena in around 1895 and spent most of her life in Italy,[1] where she continued her work as co-editor of Urania.[5]

In 1914, she signed the Open Christmas Letter along with 100 other suffragists, including Gore-Booth and Roper.[6]

Cornish was a member of the Brontë Society,[1] and in 1940, she published a novel about the Brontë sisters;[7] she also translated two French essays by Emily Brontë.[8]

Cornish died in Sidmouth, Devon, on 7 October 1945.[1]

Bibliography

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Some Notes on Contributors". Brontë Society Transactions. 12 (2): 131. 1952. doi:10.1179/bronsoc.1952.12.2.131.
  2. ↑ Kramer, Rita (2017). Maria Montessori: A Biography. New York: Diversion Books. ISBN 978-1-63576-109-2.
  3. ↑ Tiernan, Sonja (16 May 2016). Radical sexual politics and post-war religion. Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0-7190-9499-6.
  4. ↑ White, Jenny (18 May 2021). "Jenny White reflects on the legacy of Urania". LSE Review of Books. Archived from the original on 18 May 2021. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
  5. ↑ Clay, Catherine, ed. (2018). Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939: The Interwar Period. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. p. 397. ISBN 978-1-4744-1254-4.
  6. ↑ Oldfield, Sybil, ed. (2003). International Woman Suffrage: November 1914-September 1916. Abingdon: Taylor & Francis. p. 228. ISBN 978-0-415-25738-1.
  7. ↑ O'Connor, Sarah; Shepard, Christopher C., eds. (2009). Women, Social and Cultural Change in Twentieth Century Ireland: Dissenting Voices?. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 173. ISBN 978-1-4438-0693-0.
  8. ↑ "Museum Attendances: Some Comparisons". Brontë Society Transactions. 11 (5): 336–341. 1 January 1950. doi:10.1179/030977650796550074. ISSN 0309-7765.
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