Dorothy Cornish

Dorothy Helen Cornish (1 October 1870 – 7 October 1945) was an English educator, translator, writer, and social reformer. A Montessori teacher, she acted as an interpreter for Maria Montessori during Montessori's courses in England. Cornish was also a member of the Aëthnic Union and, with Eva Gore-Booth, Esther Roper, Thomas Baty and others, co-founded and edited the feminist journal Urania from 1916. She moved to Siena around 1895 and spent most of her life in Italy, while maintaining editorial work for Urania.