Ida Clyde Clarke (nee Gallaher; 1878–1956) was an American journalist, writer and suffragist. "She was a prolific and multi-faceted writer, producing works of both fiction and non-fiction studies of community organization and feminism".

Life

In 1920 she founded a monthly magazine ''The Independent Woman'', editing it until 1921.The magazine was renamed ''National Business Woman'' in 1956. She was a contributing editor to ''

Pictorial Review The ''Pictorial Review'' was an American women's magazine published from 1899 to 1939. Based in New York, the ''Pictorial Review'' was first published in September 1899. The magazine was originally designed to showcase dress patterns of German i ...

'' and founded its $5,000 annual award for women of achievement. In 1932 her son, Haden Clarke, was a ghostwriter engaged to write the memoirs of the aviator

Jessie Miller Jessie Maude "Chubbie" Miller (1902 – 1972, London, England) was a pioneering Australian aviator. England to Australia In 1927 while visiting London from her native Australia, Miller met, helped finance, and flew with R.A.F. officer Bill Lanca ...

. After a relationship ensued between Clarke and Miller, Clarke was killed by a gunshot wound to the head. The gun belonged to Miller's partner

Bill Lancaster William Henry Lancaster (November 17, 1947 – January 4, 1997) was an American screenwriter and actor. Early life He was born November 17, 1947, in Los Angeles, California, the son of Burt Lancaster (1913–1994) and Norma Anderson (1917–198 ...

, who also admitted forging suicide notes, but Lancaster was acquitted of murder charges.Chrystopher J. Spicer, ''The Flying Adventures of Jessie Keith "Chubbie" Miller: The Southern Hemisphere's First International Aviatrix, McFarland & Company'', 2017.

Works

* ''All about Nashville, a complete historical guide book to the city'', 1912 * ''Record no. 33'', 1915 * ''American women and the world war'', 1918 * ''The little democracy: a text-book on community organization'', 1918. * (ed.) ''Women of 1923, International'', 1923. (Subsequent editions appeared in 1924, 1925 and 1928.) * ''Uncle Sam needs a wife'', 1925 * (with A. O Bowden) ''Tomorrow's Americans: a practical study in student self-government'', 1930 * ''Men that wouldn't stay dead: twenty-six authentic ghost stories'', 1936

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My Suffrage Creed
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by Ida Clyde Clarke {{DEFAULTSORT:Clarke, Ida Clyde 1878 births 1956 deaths American women journalists 20th-century American non-fiction writers 20th-century American women writers People from Meridian, Mississippi Writers from Mississippi American women non-fiction writers Journalists from Mississippi