Anne O'Hagan Shinn

Anne O'Hagan Shinn (August 8, 1869 – June 24, 1933) was an American feminist, suffragist, journalist, and writer of short stories, regularly contributing to publications such as Vanity Fair, and Harper's.

[1][2] O'Hagan was a member of Heterodoxy, a feminist debating club based in Greenwich Village and she was a founding officer of the Women's Democratic Union.

[9] As a journalist, O'Hagan was a regular contributor to Vanity Fair, Harper's, Munsey's, Collier's, and other popular periodicals, often writing on feminist topics.

[12] O'Hagan discusses the differing roles of the spinster and the married woman and how women can choose to be celibate and have mature conversations with single men.

[14][15][16][17] After suffrage, Shinn covered American politics for The New York Times, including a long interview with the future presidential candidate Alfred E. Smith in 1922.

Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch and Shinn, c. 1888 and by a London photographer. Simkovitch boarded with O'Hagan when she was at Columbia University. [ 3 ]
Confessions of a Professional Woman by Anne O'Hagan, illustrated by May Wilson Preston from Harper's Bazaar , September 1907