Sarah Field Splint
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Sarah Field Splint | |
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![Sarah Field Splint, 1917 – 1918](#/media/File:Food_Administration_-_Administrators_and_Staff_-_Miss_Sarah_Field_Splint,_editor_of_"Today's_Housewife."_Assisted_Dr._Ray_Lyman_Wilbur_and_head_of_Conservation_Division_of_Food_Administration_-_NARA_-_31481011_(cropped).jpg) Sarah Field Splint, 1917 – 1918 | |
| Born | 1883 |
| Died | 1959 (aged 75–76) |
| Occupation | Feminist writer |
| Language | American English |
| Nationality | American |
| Literary movement | Second Wave Feminism |
Sarah Field Splint (1883–1959) was an American author, editor, domestic science consultant, and feminist.[2][3]
Sarah Field Splint, of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, was an alumna of Colby College.[1] From 1914 to 1919 she was the editor of the magazine "Today's Housewife", published in Cooperstown, New York.[4] She served as chief of the Home Conservation Division of the Food Conservation Division of the United States Food Administration,[5] designing the USFA uniform, later known as the Hoover apron.[6] Splint was an editor of Woman's Home Companion, Managing Editor of The Woman's Magazine,[7] and a member of the staff of The Delineator. She associated with feminist group, Heterodoxy, having favored suffrage. Splint donated to her alma mater's library a collection of the works of Sarah Orne Jewett.[1] She died in 1959.
