Milicent Washburn Shinn

Milicent Washburn Shinn (1858–1940) was born in Washington Township, Alameda County, California, and graduated from the University of California. In 1882 she took over the editorship of the new Overland Monthly, which she held until 1894.

She was a leading contributor to the magazines and later made a psychological study of children, for which her own university gave her the degree of Ph.D.