Gertrude Battles Lane

Gertrude Battles Lane (December 21, 1874—September 25, 1941)[1][2] was an American editor and was editor-in-chief of the Women's Home Companion from 1912 until 1941.

[2] In 1903, Women's Home Companion editor-in-chief Arthur T. Vance (1872-1930)[4] offered Lane a job as household editor at the magazine.

[2] The New York Times obituary noted that Lane "headed up a staff of personally selected and trained sub-editors supplemented by 20,000 reader-editors".

[2] In 1920, after the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, Lane started the first magazine campaign to fully educate women on the benefits and usage of voting.

[8] In 1932, the Women's Home Companion published an editorial in favor of repealing the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

[7] In 1996, The Thornton Academy Alumni Association granted Lane a posthumous award, which was accepted by her grand-niece.

[11] Lane was a member of the Women's Republican Club in New York City in 1928 and had been the first to pledge to register one woman voter for his presidential election.