Clara Savage Littledale

Early life Clara Littledale was born Clara Savage on January 31, 1891 in Belfast, Maine. She was the youngest of five children born to Arthur and Emma (Morrison) Savage, who were of Scottish and Irish ancestry. Not long after being hired, she was promoted to the position of editor of the woman's page.

Clara Littledale returned to the United States in 1920, at which time she married her former coworker at the Evening Post Harold Aylmer Littledale, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who would eventually go on to become the editor of the New York Times. In her capacity as editor, Clara Littledale wrote often about topics such as discipline, sex education, and character building, The plane crashed near Atlanta, Georgia, shortly after midnight on February 27. In the days after the crash, Clara Littledale dictated a report of the crash for Parents Magazine, in which she recounted her realization that the plane was crashing, being pinned under three pine trees, and the several uninjured passengers who left to form a rescue party, which returned at 6 A.M. the following morning. Clara Littledale was relatively unscathed, but her husband Harold was permanently paralyzed. Their already strained marriage became untenable as a result, and they divorced in 1945.

Death and legacy In 1947, Clara Littledale was diagnosed with cancer, but she continued to work for Parents Magazine through a series of operations and chronic pain. She participated in many events and engagements despite her diagnosis, including attending the White House Conference on Family Life in 1948, speaking at the Mental Hygiene Society Child Welfare Conference in 1949, taking a transcontinental tour in 1950, and traveling to Hawaii as a guest of the United States Navy in 1953. Clara Littledale died in 1956 in New York City having never retired. Her papers are held by Schlesinger Library in Cambridge, Massachusetts.