I
wonder Howe Maud Elliott is,
Is Martha Perry Lowe?
I
wonder, too, if Sallie Joy is White
As Mrs. Beecher Stowe?
Is
Mme. Sarah Grand enough?
Amelie Rives, I mean;
Can
Mary Mapes Dodge poem checks,
Is Anna Katherine Green?
Can
Margaret Sangster sing a song,
Does Cora Wheel-or run?
Is
John Ward, Preacher, Boston, Mass.,
Marcella’s Mother’s son?
Can
Miss Harraden steer a Ship?
Is Mrs. Merr-ill or well?
And
isn’t Mrs. Moulton gold? Chandler
And Tannat Woods a dell?
Did
Rosa Terry Cooke a meal,
And does A. stone Blackwell?
Does
sweet Miss Guiney stamp her foot?
These things I wish you’d tell.
June
29, 1895
Pub.
in Boston
Courier,
Aug. 11,
1895
Lowe, Martha Ann. An American
verse-writer; born at Keene, NH, 1829; died in 1902. She published: ‘The Olive
and the Pine’ (1859); ‘Love in Spain, and Other Poems’ (1867); ‘The Story of
Chief Joseph’ (1881); and ‘Memoir of Charles Lowe’ (1883).
Sallie Joy (White) was the first woman
journalist in Boston when she became a special reporter for the Boston
Post in 1870 to cover Woman Suffrage Conventions and related activities.
In 1874, Sallie Joy married the singer, Henry Keith White, Jr., but domestic
concerns interrupted her career only briefly. Until shortly before her death,
she advised on fashion and household problems, making famous the pseudonym
Penelope Penfeather, and continued to report woman's rights activities and
local news, particularly for the Boston Herald.
Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe (/June 14,
1811 – July 1, 1896) was an American abolitionist and author. She
came from a famous religious family and is best known for her novel Uncle
Tom's Cabin (1852). It depicts the harsh life for African Americans under
slavery. It reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the
United States and Great Britain. It energized anti-slavery forces in the American
North, while provoking widespread anger in the South. She wrote 30 books,
including novels, three travel memoirs, and collections of articles and
letters. She was influential for both her writings and her public stands on
social issues of the day.
Sarah Grand (10 June 1854 – 12 May 1943) was an
Irish feminist writer active from 1873 to 1922. Her work revolved around the New
Woman ideal.
Her work dealt with the New
Woman in fiction and also in fact; Grand wrote treatises on the
subject of the failure of marriage, and her novels may be considered
anti-marriage polemics. Grand holds out the hope of marriage as the holiest and
perfect state of union between a man and woman, but deplores the inequality and
disadvantages intended to keep young women ignorant, and insists that women
should rebel against entrapment in a loveless marriage.
The New
Woman novel was a development of the late 19th century. New Woman novelists and
characters encouraged and supported several types of political action in
Britain. For some women, the New Woman movement provided support for women who
wanted to work and learn for themselves, and who started to question the idea
of marriage and the inequality of women. For other women, especially Sarah
Grand, the New Woman movement allowed women to speak out not only about the inequality
of women, but about middle-class women's responsibilities to the nation. In The
Heavenly Twins Grand demonstrates the dangers of the moral double standard
which overlooked men's promiscuity while punishing women for the same acts.
More importantly, however, Grand argues in The Heavenly Twins that in
order for the British nation to grow stronger, middle-class women must choose
mates with whom they might produce strong, well-educated children.
Amélie Louise Rives (1863–1945) was an
American novelist, poet and playwright.
Rives
wrote at least twenty-four volumes of fiction, numerous uncollected poems, and Herod
and Marianne (1889), a verse drama. In 1888, she published novel The
Quick or the Dead?, her most famous and popular work that sold 300,000 copies.[2] The
work depicted erotic passions of a newly widowed woman and earned Rives
notoriety. Her 1914 novel, World's End was reputed to be "the
best seller in New York city".[3]
Later she
turned to theater and began writing plays for Broadway.
Her play The Fear Market ran for 118 performances at the Booth
Theatre in 1916.[4]
Mary Mapes Dodge (January 26, 1831
– August 21, 1905) was an American children's writer and editor, best known
for her novel Hans Brinker.
Mary was born Mary
Elizabeth Mapes to Prof. James Jay Mapes and Sophia Furman in
New York City. She acquired a good education under private tutors. In 1851 she
married the lawyer William Dodge. Within the next four years she gave birth to
two sons, James and Harrington. In 1857, William faced serious financial difficulties
and left his family in 1858. A month after his disappearance his body was found
dead from an apparent drowning, and Mary Mapes Dodge became a widow.
In 1859
she began writing and editing, working with her father to publish two
magazines, the Working Farmer and the United States Journal. Within a
few years she had great success with a collection of short stories, The
Irvington Stories (1864), and a novel was solicited. Dodge then wrote Hans
Brinker, or the Silver Skates, which became an instant bestseller and was
awarded a prize of fifteen hundred francs by the French Academy.
Later in
life she was an associate editor of Hearth and Home, edited by Harriet
Beecher Stowe. She had charge of the household and children's departments
of that paper for many years. She became an editor in her own right with the
children's St. Nicholas Magazine, for she was able to solicit stories from
a number of well-known writers including Mark Twain, Louisa May
Alcott, and Robert Louis Stevenson. St. Nicholas became one of the
most successful magazines for children during the second half of the nineteenth
century, with a circulation of almost 70,000 copies.
Anna Katharine Green (November 11, 1846
– April 11, 1935) was an American poet and novelist. She was one
of the first writers of detective fiction in America and
distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories. Green
has been called "the mother of the detective novel."
Green is
credited with shaping detective fiction into its classic form, and developing
the series detective. Her main character was detective Ebenezer Gryce of the
New York Metropolitan Police Force, but in three novels he is assisted by the
nosy society spinster Amelia
Butterworth, the prototype for Miss Marple, Miss Silver and
other creations. She also invented the 'girl detective': in the character of
Violet Strange, a debutante with a secret life as a sleuth. Indeed, as journalist
Kathy Hickman writes, Green "stamped the mystery genre with the
distinctive features that would influence writers from Agatha Christie and
Conan Doyle to contemporary authors of suspenseful "whodunits." In
addition to creating elderly spinster and young female sleuths, Green's
innovative plot devices included dead bodies in libraries, newspaper clippings
as "clews," the coroner's inquest, and expert witnesses. Yale
Law School once used her books to demonstrate how damaging it can be to
rely on circumstantial evidence. Written in 1878, her first book, The
Leavenworth Case: A Lawyer's Story, sparked a debate in the Pennsylvania
Senate over whether the book could "really have been written by a
woman."
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster (February 22, 1838
– 1912) was an American poet, author, and editor. She was popular in the late
19th and early 20th century.
Sangster held editorial
positions with a number of periodicals including, Hearth and Home, The
Christian at Work, Harper's Young People and eventually became an
editor at Harper’s Bazaar from 1889 to 1899. Through her work
she became acquainted with notable people of her age, including Mark Twain and Helen
Keller. Other than Harper’s Bazaar, she contributed to Ladies' Home
Journal, Hearth and Home, and the Christian Intelligencer, The
Christian Union (later became The Outlook), The Congregationalist and The
Christian Herald.
Mrs.
Sangster also wrote for "Woman's Home Companion" a 3 column, full
page work, entitled "Mrs. Sangster's Home Page" which often included
a double paged layout folio of contemporary photographs of women-at-work,
internationally, as well as a follow up page called Mrs. Sangster's Answers to
Correspondents" published in 1907.
Among
Sangster's prose works are several volumes of stories for children, and of
these, Little Jamie was written when she was seventeen years
old. Hours with Girls and Winsome Womanhood were her most
popular works. Her volumes of poetry include, Poems of the Household, Home
Fairies and Heart Flowers, On the Road Home and Easter Bells.
Sangster grew up a devout member of the Dutch Reformed Church and
wrote many hymns and sacred texts. These include a setting of the Te Deum
Laudamus and a hymn called, Thine is the Power, which gained a fair degree
of popularity in its time. In 1902 Sangster wrote the introduction to the
book, Happenings in Our Home, a book where a family could record the
important events in their lives such as births, deaths, weddings, vacations,
and holidays.
Cora Stuart Wheeler – (Sep. 6, 1849 Rockford,
Ill. - Mar. 10, 1897 Newton, Mass.), the Daughter of Buel Goodsell Wheeler and
Harriet L. Norton, was married to Alfred Jonathan Harwi on 01 Sep 1869 in
Cuyahoga County, Ohio and had three children before divorcing.
Poet, Author and Lecturer - It is said that she inherited her poetic talents from her mother who contributed to the Youth's Companion and died when Cora was just two years old. Attended Howland College, Springport, NY. Her first story "Twixt Cup and Lip" was published in 1884. Wrote for the Hartford (CT) Courant, Cleveland Leader, Kansas City Journal, Detroit Post, Detroit Tribune and Detroit Free Press under the pen name Tre-bor Ohl. For ten years she wrote under her own name and published stories and poetry in many literary publications. Served as Art Critic for the Boston Transcript. Founded the New England Women's Press Association with six other women in 1885
Poet, Author and Lecturer - It is said that she inherited her poetic talents from her mother who contributed to the Youth's Companion and died when Cora was just two years old. Attended Howland College, Springport, NY. Her first story "Twixt Cup and Lip" was published in 1884. Wrote for the Hartford (CT) Courant, Cleveland Leader, Kansas City Journal, Detroit Post, Detroit Tribune and Detroit Free Press under the pen name Tre-bor Ohl. For ten years she wrote under her own name and published stories and poetry in many literary publications. Served as Art Critic for the Boston Transcript. Founded the New England Women's Press Association with six other women in 1885
With her
father, she was at Ford's Theater in Washington the night of President
Lincoln's assassination.
She was
also editor of The Yankee Blade. (Our Sister Editors: Sarah J. Hale and the
Tradition of Nineteenth-century, By Patricia Okke) https://books.google.com/books?id=ndYFBRgpRecC&pg=PA217&lpg=PA217&dq=Cora+Wheeler+Boston+suffragette&source=bl&ots=OosHcWnATD&sig=Tus8CBrs89EpIRiZAA-P5n_-774&hl=en&sa=X&ei=3zxpVZO0D8fBtQWYo4DIBw&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=Cora%20Wheeler%20Boston%20suffragette&f=false
Margaret Deland (née Margaretta
Wade Campbell) (February 23, 1857 – January 13, 1945) was an American novelist,
short story writer, and poet. She also wrote an autobiography in two
volumes. She is generally considered part of the literary realism movement.
Deland is
known principally for the novel John
Ward, Preacher (1888), an indictment of Calvinism, which became a
best-seller. Her 'Old Chester' books, based on her early memories of the
Pittsburgh communities where she grew up — including Maple Grove and Manchester —
were also popular. She was recognized as an important and popular author of literary
realism in the United States, though some of her plots and themes were
shocking to proper Bostonians.
Marcella is a novel by Mary Augusta
Ward, first published in 1894. She was a British novelist who wrote under
her married name as Mrs. Humphry Ward.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Augusta_Ward
Beatrice Harraden (1864–1936) was a
British writer and suffragette.
Born in Hampstead, London on
24 January 1864, Harraden studied in Dresden, at Cheltenham Ladies’
College in Gloucestershire and at Queen’s College and Bedford
College in London, and received a BA [ degree. She travelled
extensively in Europe and the United States and in 1893 found
fame with her debut novel, Ships That Pass in the Night, a love story
set in a tuberculosis sanatorium. This was a best-seller but she
failed to achieve similar success with subsequent books which included novels,
short stories and books for children.
Harraden
spent several summer holidays lodging at The Green Dragon inn at Little
Stretton, Shropshire, walking and writing. Her memories of this and the
landlady, a Mrs Benbow led to her writing a short story, At the Green
Dragon, published in 1894.
Harraden
involved herself greatly with the women’s rights movement, joining the Women's
Social and Political Union, the Women Writers' Suffrage League and Women’s
Tax Resistance League and publishing her work in the suffragette paper Votes
for Women. This involvement is reflected in much of her fiction. She also
involved herself as a reader for the Oxford English Dictionary, and this, too
is reflected in her fiction: The Scholar’s Daughter (1906) is set among lexicographers.
In 1930, she received a civil
list pension for her literary work. She died at Barton-on-Sea on Monday 5
May 1936.
Merrill –
possibly Helen M. Merrill, poet?
Louise Chandler Moulton (April 10, 1835 -
August 10, 1908) was an American poet, story-writer and critic.
She was
born April 10, 1835, the daughter of Lucius L. Chandler, in Pomfret,
Connecticut. In 1855, she married a Boston publisher, William U. Moulton (d.
1898), under whose auspices her earliest literary work had appeared in The
True Flag. Her first volume of collected verse and prose, This,
Meanwhile
she had taken an important place in American literary society, writing regular critiques
for the New York Tribune from 1870 to 1876 and a weekly literary
letter for the Sunday issue of the Boston Herald from 1886 to 1892.
In 1876 she published a volume of notable Poems (renamed Swallow
flights in the English edition of 1877) and visited Europe, where she
began close and lasting friendships with leading men and women of letters.
Thenceforward
she spent the summers in London and the rest of the year in Boston,
where her salon was one of the principal resorts of literary talent.
In 1889 another volume of verse, In the Garden of Dreams, confirmed her
reputation as a poet. She also wrote several volumes of prose fiction,
including Miss Eyre from Boston and Other Stories, and some descriptions
of travel, including Lazy Tours in Spain (1896). She was well known
for the extent of her literary influence, the result of a sympathetic
personality combined with fine critical taste. She died in Boston on August 10,
1908.
A native of Peekskill,
New York, Kate Tannatt Woods
(1836–1910) was the daughter of James S. Tannatt, an editor, and Mary Tannatt.
She was married to George H. Woods, a prominent attorney and officer under
General George Sherman. Kate served as a nurse during the Civil War, and was
able to care for her husband when he was severely wounded. Upon their
return home, Kate used her writing to support her family. She worked as a
journalist for the Boston Transcript, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, and as
a contributor and editor of Harper’s Bazar and the Ladies Home
Journal. In his book Poets of Essex County, Sidney Perley described Kate
Woods’ editorial work as “clear, terse and vigorous.
Kate was
also an active member of the Moral Education Association of Boston, and in 1875
she organized a meeting at Old Town Hall in Salem to address the growing
problem of lawlessness among young women in the city. This meeting paved the
way for the formation of the Salem Moral Education Association, later, the Woman’s
Friend Society, an organization that operated an employment bureau, reading
room, and a residential facility for young women.
Kate Tannatt Woods is perhaps best known for her work in the women’s club movement, a phenomenon of the nineteenth century in which women organized for political, literary, philanthropic, and social purposes. Kate was a founder and one of the first officers of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs, the national parent organization of women’s clubs. She was also one of the founders of the Massachusetts State Federation of Women’s Clubs, a member of Boston’s Wintergreen Club (whose members included the reformists Julia Ward Howe and Mary A. Livermore), and the founder of the Thought and Work Club in Salem.
Rose Terry Cooke (née Terry)
(February 17, 1827 – July 18, 1892) was an American writer born in West
Hartford, Connecticut to Henry Wadsworth Terry and Anne Wright Hurlbut.
Terry's
first published poem appeared in the New York Daily Tribune in 1851
and received high praise from the editor Charles A. Dana. In 1855 she
published "The Mormon's Wife" in Graham's Magazine, of which Elizabeth
Stuart Phelps Ward wrote that it "dealt powerfully with the leprosy
of Mormonism, and wrung from the heart tears dried only by the heat of
indignation," and interpreted the story as early evidence of Cooke's
"intuitions of genius . . . a genius [which] became the ultimate
expression of generations of hard Puritan ancestry.” In 1860 she
published a volume of poems, and in 1888 she published more verse with her Complete
Poems. It was after her marriage in 1873 to Rollin H. Cooke that she became
best known for her fresh and humorous stories. Her chief volumes of fiction
dealing mainly with New England country life were Happy Dodd: or, She Hath
Done What She Could (1878), Somebody's Neighbors (1881), Root-bound
and Other Sketches (1885), The Sphinx's Children and Other People's (1886), No:
A Story for Boys.(1886), Steadfast (1889) and Huckleberries Gathered
From the New England Hills (1891). She died at Pittsfield,
Massachusetts on July 18, 1892.
Alice Stone Blackwell (September 14, 1857 – March 15,
1950) was an American feminist, suffragist, journalist, and human
rights advocate.
The
daughter of Henry Browne Blackwell and Lucy Stone, she was born
in East Orange, New Jersey.
Alice was
educated at the Harris Grammar School in Dorchester, the Chauncy
School in Boston, Abbot Academy in Andover, and Boston
University, from where she graduated in 1881 at age 24. She belonged to Phi
Beta Kappa Society. She was an editor (1881–1917) of the Woman's Journal,
the major publication of the women's rights movement at that time, first as
assistant to her parents and after their deaths as editor in chief.
From 1890
to 1908, Alice Stone Blackwell was the National American Woman Suffrage
Association's recording secretary and in 1909 and 1910 one of the national
auditors. She was also prominent in Woman's Christian Temperance Union activities.
In 1903 she reorganized the Society of Friends of Russian Freedom in
Boston.
In later
life, Alice went blind
Louise
Imogen Guiney (January
7, 1861 – November 2, 1920) was an American poet, essayist and
editor, born in Roxbury, Massachusetts.
The
daughter of Gen. Patrick R. Guiney, an Irish-born American Civil War
officer and lawyer ]and
Jeannette Margaret Doyle, she was educated at a convent school in Providence,
Rhode Island, from which she graduated in 1879. Over the next 20 years, she
worked at various jobs, including serving as a postmistress and working as a
cataloger at the Boston Public Library.
In 1901,
Guiney moved to Oxford, England, to focus on her poetry and essay writing.
She soon began to suffer from ill health and was no longer able to write poetry
and instead concentrated on critical and biographical studies of English
Catholic poets and writers.
Guiney
died of a stroke near Gloucesterhire, England, at age 59, leaving much of her
work unfinished.
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