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Mabel Potter Daggett
1871–1927
A sharp-eyed journalist and suffragist, she brought the urgency of world events and women's public lives onto the page. Her writing moves between reportage, biography, and reform, with a clear interest in the lives history was changing.
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Women wanted: The story written in blood red letters on the horizon of the Great World War
by Mabel Potter Daggett
About the author
Born in Syracuse, New York, Mabel Potter Daggett was an American writer, journalist, editor, and suffragist. She studied at Syracuse University and went on to build a career in magazines and newspapers, writing with the brisk, accessible style of a working reporter.
Daggett is especially remembered for reporting from France during World War I and for writing about women's roles in public life. Her book Women Wanted grew out of that wartime experience, and she also wrote a biography of Queen Marie of Romania, showing her interest in strong, visible women on the world stage.
Alongside her literary and journalistic work, she was active in the women's movement in the United States. That mix of political engagement and firsthand reporting gives her work an energy that still feels vivid: she wrote not from a distance, but from the middle of change.