Dorothy Todd

Dorothy Todd (1883–1966) was a British magazine editor.

During her time as editor of British Vogue from 1922 to 1926, Todd altered the magazine's interest and content from fashion to a broader inclusion of modernist literature and art. Unlike her predecessor, Elspeth Champcommunal, who focused on fashion, travel, and trends, Todd included works by modernists such as Wyndam Lewis, Gertrude Stein, Clive Bell, Virginia Woolf, and Aldous Huxley. Much of "the failure of [her] Vogue to sustain itself within the specific context of Condé Nast's corporate structure and the general context of British culture in the 1920s" can probably be attributed to its progressive nature and "significant subcultural context" In 1982, Madge Garland reflected that the firing and blackmail was rooted in homophobia, writing: "in the days when homosexuality was a criminal offence he [Condé Nast] was not above using the direct threat of disclosure to avoid paying up for a broken contract."

Affectionately known as 'Dody',

Publications and life after Vogue Todd published British Vogue for four years, between 1922 and 1926.

She published The New Interior Decoration with Raymond Mortimer in 1929. It was dedicated to Madge Garland.

She ran a gallery for a short time in the 1930s, published an essay about Marion Dorn's work in the Architectural Review and held a job as a social worker during World War Two.

She published an English translation of Le Corbusier's Sur les Quatre Routes in 1947, and an English translation of a biography of Metternich in 1953. She grew up believing that Dorothy was her aunt, and this was how Dorothy presented their relationship publicly. Helen's paternity is unknown, but it is possible that she was conceived through sexual abuse. Todd's presence in Garland's life is sometimes painted in a negative light, but Garland herself stated that "Other people will say she ruined by life, she ruined my marriage, she gave me a terrible time. To hell. I have no regrets at all. She fostered me and she helped me. She opened many doors. I repaid that debt in full, because I supported her later in life. But I owed her more than I could ever repay."

Near the end of her life, while she was living in Cambridge in the 1960s, Todd wooed a young Italian woman who left her husband to be with her.

French historian Emmanuel Todd is Dorothy Todd's great-grandson.