The American feminist memoirist mentioned in the January 1896 number of Donahoe's Magazine was born on what date?
Donahoe's Magazine Donahoe's Magazine was a United-States-based Catholic-oriented general interest magazine that ran from about 1878 to July 1908, when it was absorbed by the "Catholic World" of New York. It had been founded by Patrick Donahoe, one-time editor of the "New York Pilot". It has recently attracted attention as containing possibly the first literary mention of Mary MacLane, the American feminist memoirist, in the January 1896 number.
Mary Bookstaver Mary A. Bookstaver (1875–1950) was a feminist, political activist, and editor, widely known by the nickname "May." Daughter of Judge Henry W. Bookstaver and Mary Baily Young, she attended Miss Florence Baldwin's School (now Baldwin School) and graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1898 in history and political science. After graduation she moved to Baltimore, Maryland, where she was part of a circle of lesbian Bryn Mawr graduates, including Bookstaver's lover, Mabel Haynes. Gertrude Stein, then a Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine student, became infatuated with Bookstaver, who found Stein's naïveté literally laughable, but introduced Stein to physical love. The experience made a deep impression on Stein, whose first novel, "QED", completed in Baltimore in 1903, was an autobiographical account of this love triangle, with Bookstaver's character named "Helen Thomas."