Agnes Ryan
Agnes Edna Ryan | |
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| Born | November 10, 1878[1] |
| Died | 1954 |
| Occupation(s) | Activist, editor |
Agnes Edna Ryan (November 10, 1878 – 1954), also known as Agnes Ryan Stevens was a pacifist, vegetarian, and managing editor of Woman's Journal, 1910-1917.[2][3]
Biography
Agnes Edna Ryan was born in Stuart, Iowa to Edward and Mary A. Ryan. She had two siblings, John and Katherine Ryan.[4]
Graduating from Boston University in 1903, Ryan went on to work for the Riverside Press in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and as a staff member of the Congregationalist and National magazines, as well as the Boston American. In 1910, she became managing editor of the Woman's Journal. In 1915, Agnes E. Ryan married Henry Bailey Stevens, who also worked for the Woman's Journal.[4] The couple adopted two children, Peter and Patricia.[4]
In 1917, Ryan and Stevens resigned from the Woman's Journal in part because of their opposition to World War I.[4] Later, Ryan would organize the New Hampshire Peace Union, write poetry, and become active in the MacDowell Colony of Peterborough, New Hampshire.[4]
Ryan was among the feminist vegetarians who, during World War I, made a connection between meat eating and the killing of human beings in the Great War.[5]: 123
In Ryan's unpublished novel, "Who Can Fear Too Many Stars?," she depicts vegetarianism as a way of resisting male dominance. [5]: 132
Ryan's papers are archived at the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, and include unpublished novels, diaries, correspondences, an autobiography, and other writings.[2]
Reception
Carol J. Adams argues that Ryan's "the Cancer Bogy" was perhaps the first modern vegetarian health guide.[5]: 149
Josephine Donovan mentions that Ryan is one of the many first-wave feminists who advocated for animal rights.[6]: 359
Selected publications
- The Torch Bearer. A Look Forward and Back at the Woman's Journal, the Organ of the Woman's Movement (1916)
- A Whisper of Fire (1919)
- For the Church Door (1943)
External links
- The Torch Bearer. A Look Forward and Back at the Woman's Journal, the Organ of the Woman's Movement (1916)
- "If You Are a Minister," woman suffrage postcard. Social Welfare History Image Portal, Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries.
References
- ^ "Agnes Ryan". Retrieved November 13, 2019.
- ^ a b "Ryan, Agnes E., 1878-1954. Papers of Agnes E. Ryan, 1904-1955: A Finding Aid". Oasis.lib.harvard.edu. Archived from the original on 2018-07-03. Retrieved 2018-04-26.
- ^ "Guide to the Henry Bailey Stevens and Agnes Ryan Papers, 1891-1974". Retrieved November 13, 2019.
- ^ a b c d e "Guide to the Henry Bailey Stevens and Agnes Ryan Papers, 1891-1974". University of New Hampshire Library. Retrieved December 4, 2019.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b c Adams, C. J. (1990). The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory. New York: Continuum.
- ^ Donovan, Josephine (1990). "Animal Rights and Feminist Theory". Signs. 15 (2): 350–375. doi:10.1086/494588. JSTOR 3174490.
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