| Dorothy Cornish | |
| Birth Name: | Dorothy Helen Cornish |
| Birth Date: | 1 October 1870 |
| Birth Place: | Sixhills, Lincolnshire, England |
| Death Place: | Sidmouth, Devon, England |
| Occupation: | Educator, activist, translator, writer |
| Known For: | Co-founding and editing Urania |
Dorothy Helen Cornish (1 October 1870 – 7 October 1945) was an English Montessori educator, suffragist, translator and writer. She was a co-creator and editor of the feminist gender studies journal Urania.
Cornish was born in Sixhills, Lincolnshire, on 1 October 1870. Her father was Rev. Frank Fortescue Cornish, who was H.M. Inspector of Schools, and her mother was Margaret Gertrude Garnier.[1] Her grandfather was Thomas Garnier the Younger and great grandfather was Thomas Garnier the Elder. She moved with her family to Manchester at the age of six for her father's work.[2]
Cornish worked as a Montessori educator and acted as an interpreter for Maria Montessori for many of her English courses.[3]
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.[4] Cornish opposed children being indoctrinated into gender roles.[5] She moved to Siena around 1895 and spent most of her life in Italy, where she continued her work as co-editor of Urania.[6]
In 1914, she signed the Open Christmas Letter along with 100 other suffragists, including Gore-Booth and Roper.[7]
Cornish was a member of the Brontë Society, and, in 1940, she published a novel about the Brontë sisters,[8] which was well received in The New York Times.[9] She also translated two French essays by Emily Brontë.[10]
Cornish died in Sidmouth, Devon, on 7 October 1945.