Dorothy Cornish | |
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| Born | Dorothy Helen Cornish 1 October 1870 Sixhills, Lincolnshire, England |
| Died | 7 October 1945 (aged 75) Sidmouth, Devon, England |
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| Notable work | Urania |
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| Family | Garnier family |
Dorothy Helen Cornish (1 October 1870 – 7 October 1945) was an English educator, translator, writer, and social reformer. A Montessori teacher, she acted as an interpreter for Maria Montessori during Montessori's courses in England. Cornish was also a member of the Aëthnic Union and, with Eva Gore-Booth, Esther Roper, Thomas Baty and others, co-founded and edited the feminist journal Urania from 1916. She moved to Siena around 1895 and spent most of her life in Italy, while maintaining editorial work for Urania.
Biography
[edit]Early life
[edit]Cornish was born in Sixhills, Lincolnshire, on 1 October 1870 to Rev. Frank Fortescue Cornish, H. M. Inspector of Schools, and Margaret Gertrude Cornish (née Garnier).[1][2] Her maternal grandfather was Thomas Garnier the Younger and great grandfather was Thomas Garnier the Elder.[3]
Cornish moved with her family to Manchester when she was six, following her father's work.[1]
Career
[edit]Cornish worked as a Montessori educator and acted as an interpreter for Maria Montessori during her English courses.[4]
Cornish was a member of the Aëthnic Union, alongside Eva Gore-Booth, Esther Roper, Thomas Baty (also known as Irene Clyde) and Jessey Wade. In 1916, they co-founded the feminist journal Urania which she contributed and for which she served as an editor.[5] She opposed the socialisation of children into gender roles.[6] She moved to Siena around 1895 and spent most of her life in Italy, where she continued her work as a co-editor of Urania.[1][7]
In 1914, she signed the Open Christmas Letter with 100 other suffragists, including Gore-Booth and Roper.[8]
Cornish was a member of the Brontë Society.[1] In 1940, she published a novel about the Brontë sisters.[9] The novel was reviewed in The New York Times.[10] She also translated two essays by Emily Brontë from French.[11]
Death
[edit]Cornish died in Sidmouth, Devon, on 7 October 1945.[1]
Publications
[edit]- Verses (San Bernardino: Pontifical Printing-Office, 1904)
- Sealed Poetry by Robert Burns (editor and translator; Firenze: Landi, 1908)
- These Were the Brontes: A Novel (New York: Macmillan Co., 1940)
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e "Some Notes on Contributors". Brontë Society Transactions. 12 (2). Brontë Society: 131. 1952. doi:10.1179/bronsoc.1952.12.2.131.
- ^ Tunley, Barbara Frances; Greenwell, Janet. "Cornish Genealogy 1600-2007" (PDF). Atari Dog Daze & Science Projects. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
- ^ Matthew, H. C. G.; Harrison, B., eds. (23 September 2004). "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/10399. Retrieved 9 March 2024. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Kramer, Rita (2017). Maria Montessori: A Biography. New York: Diversion Books. ISBN 978-1-63576-109-2.[page needed]
- ^ Tiernan, Sonja (16 May 2016). "Radical sexual politics and post-war religion". Eva Gore-Booth: An image of such politics. Manchester University Press. doi:10.7765/9780719094996.00019. ISBN 978-0-7190-9499-6.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Clay, Catherine, ed. (2018). Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939: The Interwar Period. Edinburgh University Press. p. 397. ISBN 978-1-4744-1254-4.
- ^ Oldfield, Sybil, ed. (2003). International Woman Suffrage: November 1914-September 1916. Abingdon: Taylor & Francis. p. 228. ISBN 978-0-415-25738-1.
- ^ O'Connor, Sarah; Shepard, Christopher C., eds. (2009). Women, Social and Cultural Change in Twentieth Century Ireland: Dissenting Voices?. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 173. ISBN 978-1-4438-0693-0.
- ^ Gorman, Herbert (28 January 1940). "A Novel About the Brontes; Miss Cornish's Presentation of the Family Archieves an Excellent Portrait of Charlotte". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 28 June 2024.
- ^ "Museum Attendances: Some Comparisons". Brontë Society Transactions. 11 (5). Brontë Society: 336–341. 1 January 1950. doi:10.1179/030977650796550074. ISSN 0309-7765.
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