Georgia Willis Read

Georgia Willis Read (February 3, 1881 – November 3, 1965)[1] was an American editor, historian, writer, and weaver.

She attended Smith College,[2] following her older sister Elizabeth Fisher Read.

[3] Read served in the Smith College Relief Unit in France during World War I.

[4][5] She worked at Columbia University Press, and wrote and edited books with her partner and fellow Smith alumna, Ruth Louise Gaines.

They grew flax for linen and bred Angora rabbits for wool, to use in their spinning, dyeing, and weaving according to traditional methods.