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Antiqueight (antiqueight@mastodon.ie)'s status on Sunday, 12-May-2024 03:28:18 JST Antiqueight
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  Penny Richards (pennamiteplr@mastodon.world)'s status on Sunday, 12-May-2024 03:28:20 JST Penny Richards
  
  started a #wikipedia article on US writer, editor, clubwoman, war worker, Harriet Bliss Ford (1876-1964): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Bliss_Ford @wikiwomeninred @redcross @ywcausa #WWI @smithcollege
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  1. Harriet Chalmers Bliss, from the 1899 yearbook of Smith College; a young white woman with hair in a bouffant updo, in an oval frame
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  2. Harriet Bliss Ford, from a 1928 publication; a middle-aged white woman with dark hair in an updo, wearing drop earrings and a dark top and a necklace
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    Harriet Bliss Ford
    
    Harriet Chalmers Bliss Ford (November 28, 1876 – February 20, 1964) was an American editor, writer, and clubwoman. From 1899 to 1912, she was an editor at The Century Magazine. Later, she held national leadership roles in the YWCA, and worked in Paris during World War I. She was elected vice-president of Smith College in 1931. Early life and education Bliss was born in New York City and raised in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, the daughter of Charles Bliss and Harriet Maria Kopper Bliss. Her father was a physician and Union Army veteran of the American Civil War, and her mother was born in Scotland. Both of her parents died in the 1880s. She graduated from Smith College in 1899. Career From 1899 to 1912, Bliss was an editorial assistant and then editor at The Century Magazine. Later, she held national leadership roles in the YWCA. She was based in Paris during World War I, at the Paris headquarters of the American Red Cross, and as chair of the city's committee of the Smith College Relief Unit in France. She was decorated by the King of Montenegro...

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