Sarah C. Hallowell

Born in Philadelphia on July 8, 1833, Sarah Catherine Fraley Hallowell was an American journalist, editor, and women’s club leader. She studied at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, but became best known for her work in publishing and for her role in Philadelphia’s growing movement for women’s advancement.

Hallowell edited The New Century for Women, a weekly paper created by the Women’s Centennial Executive Committee of Philadelphia and focused on women’s industrial and economic opportunities. She also worked for many years at the Public Ledger in Philadelphia as an associate editor, literary editor, and writer of the paper’s household column.

She was the founder and first president of the New Century Club, one of Philadelphia’s important women’s organizations, and she was also involved with the Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association. Alongside her journalism, she published fiction, including Nan; the New Fashioned Girl. She died in Philadelphia on March 17, 1914.