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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.
Feb 23, 2021 · Learn about the two women who shaped Norman Lear's life and career before his current wife, Lyn. Frances Lear was a feminist publisher and a bipolar divorcee, while Charlotte Rosen was a cosmetics saleswoman and a trophy wife.
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...
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....
Frances Lear was a magazine publisher, feminist activist and Hollywood wife who divorced Norman Lear, the producer of All in the Family and Maude. She received $25m in the settlement and used it to launch Lear's, a women's magazine that failed in 1994.
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
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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.
