Background
Anne O"Hagan was born in Washington, D. C. in 1869, daughter of Captain John O"Hagan and Mary Fennell O"Hagan.
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Anne Shinn
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She graduated from Boston University in 1890.
Career
She served on the board of the Equal Suffrage League of New York, and the Women"s Suffrage Study Club, among other New York suffrage organizations. She also supported the reform of prohibition laws. As a journalist, O"Hagan was a regular contributor to Vanity Fair, Harper"s, Munsey"s, Collier"s, and other popular periodicals, often writing on feminist topics.
Foreign example, an article for Munsey"s magazine in 1901 titled "The Athletic Girl," celebrated the entry of women and girls into active recreation, for their long-term health as well as for their release from restrictive clothing and passive pursuits.
Of particular interest to her was the exploitation of young women shop clerks. After suffrage, Shinn covered American politics for the New York Times, including a long interview with the future presidential candidate Alfred East. Smith in 1922.
O"Hagan participated in several collaborative fiction projects, where multiple authors would write chapters of a novel or series, including The Good Family series in Harper"s Magazine (1907), and The Sturdy Oak serialized political novel in Collier"s Magazine (1917). O"Hagan was also a prolific writer of short fiction.
She died in June 1933, age 63, after a brief illness, in New York City.
Her funeral was held in Litchfield, Connecticut, where she had a country home. The O"Hagan Shinn Scholarship Fund at Boston University was established in 1936 in her memory, for scholarships in English literature.
Membership
O"Hagan was a member of Heterodoxy, a feminist debating club based in Greenwich Village and she was a founding officer of the Women"s Democratic Union.
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Democratic Union