Dorothy Cornish
Dorothy Helen Cornish was an English Montessori educator, suffragist, writer and editor of the genderqueer feminist journal Urania.Life and work
Cornish was born in Sixhills, Lincolnshire on 1 October 1870. Her father was Rev. Frank Fortescue, who was H.M. Inspector of Schools. She moved with her family to Manchester at the age of six for her father's work.
Cornish worked as a Montessori educator and acted as interpreter for Maria Montessori for many of her English courses.
Cornish was a member of the Aëthnic Union, along with Eva Gore-Booth, Esther Roper, Thomas Baty and Jessey Wade. In 1916, they co-founded the feminist journal Urania and she contributed as editor. She moved to Siena in around 1895 and spent most of her life in Italy, where she continued her work as editor of Urania.
In 1914, she signed the Open Christmas Letter along with 100 other suffragists, including Gore-Booth and Roper.
Cornish was a member of the Brontë Society and in 1940, she published a novel about the Brontë sisters; she also translated two French essays by Emily Brontë.
Cornish died at Sidmouth, Devon, on 7 October 1945.
