Inez (Haynes) Gillmore Irwin was the first fiction editor of Max Eastman's periodical, The Masses and one of the original members of the feminist society, Heterodoxy. Author of more than forty books, her writings ranged from a children's series (Maida) to feminist histories. She served in leadership roles in various professional writers' associations and chaired the board of directors of the World Center for Women's Archives proposed by Mary Ritter Beard.
More of Irwin's materials are in the Will Irwin and Inez Haynes Gillmore Papers at the Beinecke Library, Yale University.
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