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Frances Lear (née Loeb, July 14, 1923 – September 30, 1996) was an American activist, magazine publisher, editor and writer. Biography. Lear was born with only a first name, Evelyn, to an unwed mother in Hudson, New York, at the Vanderheusen Home for Wayward Girls.
Oct 1, 1996 · Frances Lear, a mercurial figure in the media world who spent some $25 million she received in a divorce settlement to start a magazine named after herself, died yesterday at her home in...
Feb 23, 2021 · Frances and Norman Lear were married for 28 years and had two daughters before divorcing in 1985. Frances used some of her $100 million settlement to start the feminist magazine Lear's, which catered to "the woman who wasn't born yesterday" (via The New York Times).
May 15, 1989 · FRANCES LEAR, publisher with a messianic commitment to women over 40, has broken the wrinkle barrier by reaching for a neglected market
In the early 1960s, Frances Lear was an unquestioning, full-time housewife and mother when she read Betty Friedan 's groundbreaking treatise The Feminine Mystique which served as the catalyst for the modern women's movement.
Oct 1, 1996 · Frances Lear, the former wife of producer Norman Lear who used her sizable divorce settlement to found a women’s magazine called Lear’s and later founded Lear Television, died Monday. She...
Frances Lear was a political activist and Hollywood wife who spent some $25m she received from a divorce settlement on a magazine she named after herself.
