Sally Baker Sally Baker i(A86598 works by) (birth name: Eena Young)
Born: Established: 1913 Subiaco, Inner Perth, Perth, Western Australia, ; Died: Ceased: 31 Dec 2004
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Eena Young grew up in the Perth suburb of Subiaco determined to enter the then male-dominated world of journalism. Her brother, Howard Young, also wanting to work in journalism, moved to New South Wales where he befriended the New Zealander, Sidney Baker (q.v.) In 1937 Young married Baker and changed her first name as well as her surname, becoming Sally Baker. The couple worked in London for several years, returning to Australia in 1942.

By the late 1940s Baker had been deserted by her husband and was raising two young daughters on her own. In 1952 she was offered a position with the Sydney Sun by its editor Lindsay Clinch (who was to become her second husband) and later joined the staff of Woman's Day where she remained for twenty years.

Baker is remembered as a pioneering female journalist in the world of Australian newspapers and magazines.

(Source: 'Gifted Writer Who Paved the Way for Other Women', Suzanne Baker, The Sydney Morning Herald, 14 January 2005, p.19)

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