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Sarah Field Splint

Sarah Field Splint
Sarah Field Splint at work
Splint at work
Born 1883
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
Died 1959
Occupation Feminist writer
Language American English
Nationality American
Ethnicity White
Literary movement Second Wave Feminism

Sarah Field Splint (1883 – 1959) was an American author, editor, domestic science consultant, and feminist.

Sarah Field Splint, of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, was an alumnus of Colby College. She served as chief of the Home Conservation Division of the Food Conservation Division of the United States Food Administration, designing the USFA uniform, later known as the Hoover apron. Splint was an editor of Woman's Home Companion, Managing Editor of The Woman's Magazine, 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. She died in 1959.


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