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Abby Meehan
Abby Meehan
Born	1853; Swansesa, Wales
Died	1931

Abby Meehan (1853–1931) was a British fashion and early cinema journalist and editor.

Biography

Meehan was born in Swansea, Wales to Irish Catholic parents, the eldest of four children, and grew up in Bath, England. Her father Bartholomew was an antiquarian from Cork who had previously lived in Liverpool. The family business was located at 1 Henrietta Street, Bath, where Meehan and her sister started a millinery shop around 1880. Meehan was acquainted with John Arthur Roebuck Rudge, through which she wrote about early motion pictures.^[1]

After the death of her father in 1892 when she was 39, Meehan moved to London.

In 1913, Meehan produced and presented the cinemagazine Kinemacolor Fashion Gazette for Charles Urban's Natural Colour Kinematograph Company.

References

^ McKernan, Luke (2020). "Abby Meehan". Women Film Pioneers Project. University of Columbia. Retrieved 14 September 2024.

Category:1853 births Category:19th-century British businesswomen Category:British fashion journalists Category:British milliners Category:British people of Irish descent Category:Fashion editors Category:Welsh people of Irish descent Category:Writers from Bath, Somerset Category:Writers from Swansea

[1] McKernan, Luke (2020). "Abby Meehan". Women Film Pioneers Project. University of Columbia. Retrieved 14 September 2024.

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