Wyatt, Edith, 1873-1958

Chicago author and social activist.

During the century's first decade while teaching at Hull House and being active in The Little Room, Wyatt produced her best fiction, including poetry, short stories and her first novel. She also began to produce non-fiction work, much published in McClure's magazine, that reflected her commitment to social causes -- working-class women, child labor, stockyard animal abuses, and other societal problems she observed in Chicago. A friend of William Dean Howells, who admired her work, Wyatt was acquainted with many outstanding writers and reformers of her day. She was one of the founders of Poetry magazine, and was briefly an editor at McClure's.

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