| Katherine Conway was a journalist, editor, author, poet and artist who lived at the turn of the last century. Her accomplishments as a writer were significant, but she also made a huge contribution to the future of women in journalism as the first and only female editor of the Boston Pilot, a Catholic newspaper published today by the Archdiocese of Boston.; Conway had edited secular newspapers in New York in the 1880s, and became managing editor of the Pilot in 1905.; Interestingly, Conway, who never married, was an advocate of marriage and family. Although she opposed the suffrage, she thought that women should be lauded for their accomplishments, not because they were women, but because they were individuals. She was against the suffrage but stood for equality.; As editor of the Pilot Conway editorialized against "Woman Suffrage," and spoke out against women in the workplace, all the while living the life she so staunchly railed against. Access to information about Conway is available through an archive held at the John Burn's Library of Boston College, as well as microfilmed newspapers archived at Notre Dame University. |
