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Orie Latham Hatcher (December 10, 1868-April 1, 1946) was an American feminist educational reformer.

Early life and education

She was born in Petersburg, Virginia. Her mother, Orania Virginia Snead, was a trustee of Hartshorn Memorial College, a private college for African American women in Richmond, Virginia. Her father, William Eldridge Hatcher, founded Fork Union Military Academy, and was a Baptist pastor. Orie Hatcher graduated from the Richmond Female Institute in 1884 at age 15. She earned a bachelor's degree at Vassar College in 1888, and a doctorate in English literature from the University of Chicago in 1903. She taught at Bryn Mawr College, receiving tenure in 1911. She published in journals such as the Modern Language Review, and served as chair of the Comparative and Elizabethan Literature department. Believing that her Virginia education had been inferior to that of her classmates at Vassar and the University of Chicago, she resigned at age 47 in 1914 to return to Richmond and champion better educational opportunities for Southern women. She would go on to head the Southern Women's Education Alliance, later named the Alliance for Guidance of Rural Youth. She specifically pushed against the image of the Southern belle as only gaining an education to attract a husband. She founded the Virginia Bureau of Vocations for Women, and published an important article in The Nation, "The Virginia Man and the New Era for Women."

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References

1. ^ Crouch, Laura (June 24, 2020). "Orie Latham Hatcher, Ph.D. (December 10, 1868 – April 1, 1946)". VCU Library: Social Welfare History Project.
2. Reveal, Judith C. "Orie Latham Hatcher (1868–1946)". Encyclopedia.com.
3. James, Edward T., ed. (1971). Notable American Women, 1607–1950. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap, Harvard University Press.
4. "Promotions, Reappointments, and Changes in the Academic and Administrative Staff for the Year 1910-11: Orie Latham Hatcher, Ph.D., Associate in Comparative Literature and Elizabethan Literature". Annual Reports of the President of Bryn Mawr College, 1906-1911: vii – via Internet Archive.
5. Peavy, Linda; Smith, Ursula (1983). Women Who Changed Things. New York: Scribner. p. 68.
6. ^ Johnson, Joan Marie (2008). Southern Women at the Seven Sister Colleges: Feminist Values and Social Zctivism, 1875-1915. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press. p. 27. ISBN 978-0-8203-3095-2.
7. Hatcher, Orie Latham (June 1, 1918). "The Virginia Man and the New Era for Women". The Nation. 106 (2761): 650 – via Internet Archive.

• 1868 births
• 1946 deaths
• People from Richmond, Virginia
• American educators
• Vassar College alumni
• University of Chicago alumni
• Bryn Mawr College faculty