Lilian Mohin

Lilian Mohin (1938 or 1939 - 2020) was a co-founder of Onlywomen Press, a London-based publishing house primarily publishing feminist work. She remained the director of the company until 2015.[1]

Early life

    She was born Lilian Rodgers in Sevenoaks to Karl Rotter, a silverware designer, and Hilda (nee Rosenrauch). Her parents had lived in Vienna but were forced to flee in 1938 to avoid persecution from Nazis. When they moved from Vienna to Sevenoaks they changed their surname to Rodgers. When Lilian was still an infant, her parents moved to the United States, where she attended Taunton High School. While still in high school, she met her future husband, William Mohin, who was a cadet at the nearby US Coast Guard Academy.

    Career

    They eventually got married in 1957, and Lilian was just 18 years old. Over the next three years she had two children, Andrea and Timothy.

    During this time they moved around because of William job. At each location, Lillian was an inner-city school teacher that would be an apart of fair housing movement. She was also a “Nader’s Raiders” for Ralph Nader who was the head of a group fighting for equal rights in the US. In 1970, they moved their family to the UK . They eventually got divorced in 1973 and she came out as lesbian, and made her sexuality into a cause. In 2015, illness forced her to step down from Only Women Press, and she was moved to Nightingale care home in Clapham to live her last few years.

    Works
    • Cracks: poems 1974-75. London: Onlywomen Press, 1975.
    • (ed.) One foot on the mountain : an anthology of British feminist poetry, 1969-1979. [London]: Onlywomen Press Ltd., 1979.
    • (with Anna Wilson) Past participants : a lesbian history diary for 1984. London: Onlywomen Press, 1983.
    • (ed. with Sheila Shulman) The Reach and other stories: lesbian feminist fiction. London: Onlywomen Press, 1984.
    • (ed.) Beautiful barbarians : lesbian feminist poetry. London: Onlywomen, 1986.
    • (ed.) The Pied Piper: lesbian feminist fiction. London: Onlywomen, 1989.
    • (ed.) An intimacy of equals: lesbian feminist ethics. New York: Harrington Park Press, 1996.
    • (ed.) Not for the academy : lesbian poets. London: Onlywomen Press, 1999.

    References
    1. "Lilian Mohin obituary | World news". The Guardian. 13 March 2020. Retrieved 20 March 2020.


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