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Family Influences And Intersections: Adelaide F. Samuels Bassett And Susan Blagge Caldwell Samuels Marcy (Mrs. S. B. C. Samuels), Deidre Johnson
Family Influences And Intersections: Adelaide F. Samuels Bassett And Susan Blagge Caldwell Samuels Marcy (Mrs. S. B. C. Samuels), Deidre Johnson
English Faculty Publications
A number of women who created children's series came from writing families – generally, mothers and daughters (like the two Elizabeth Stuart Phelpses) or sisters (like Julia A. Mathews and Joanna Hone Mathews). Adelaide F. Samuels and Mrs. S. B. C. Samuels offer a somewhat different example of this category in that they were sisters-in-law rather than biological relatives. Both women wrote professionally for only a short period: Susan Samuels is also among those authors who produced only one series before abandoning the genre. (Adelaide penned two and a standalone sequel.)
Talent, Tensions, And Tragedy: The Life And Writings Of Sarah E. Chester Logie, Deidre Johnson
Talent, Tensions, And Tragedy: The Life And Writings Of Sarah E. Chester Logie, Deidre Johnson
English Faculty Publications
Demographically, Sarah E. Chester (who also wrote as Sallie Chester) shares several traits with other women who created girls' series. A minister's daughter, she lived in the Northeastern United States and had several family members who also wrote for publication. Like several of her counterparts with close associations to the clergy, she worked primarily with religious presses. And, like many married series authors, she found the shape of her life affected by her husband's actions and decisions – in her case, quite drastically. Although her fiction has distinctly religious elements, a number of Chester's stories are more notable for the …
Joanna Hone Mathews And Julia Anthon Mathews: Sisterhood And Sunday School Books, Deidre A. Johnson
Joanna Hone Mathews And Julia Anthon Mathews: Sisterhood And Sunday School Books, Deidre A. Johnson
English Faculty Publications
A number of women who authored children’s series came from writing families, with parents, siblings, cousins, or other relatives also publishing in some fashion. Another group had connections to the clergy, with fathers or husbands (or both) serving as ministers or teaching religious studies. One small subset of this population was sisters who wrote girls’ or children’s series and who had ministers as fathers. The earliest such pair were Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1815-1852) and Sarah Stuart Robbins (1817-1910), daughters of Andover theologian Moses Stuart (1780-1852). The most successful – in terms of series fiction ‑- were probably the Mathews sisters, …
"She Had Ceased To Offer Her Stories For Publication": Louise M. Thurston And The Unfinished Charley Roberts Series, Deidre A. Johnson
"She Had Ceased To Offer Her Stories For Publication": Louise M. Thurston And The Unfinished Charley Roberts Series, Deidre A. Johnson
English Faculty Publications
One of the unsolved mysteries of series fiction is that of Louise M. Thurston, a promising author who wrote part of a series about siblings for Lee & Shepard -- then, apparently, just stopped writing. Thurston's brief career covers the four years between 1868-1872 and intersects with two significant trends in 19th-century children's publishing, the growth of Sunday-school libraries and the practice of issuing children's books in series. Her career illustrates in microcosm the markets for beginning writers, and its early termination raises questions about some of the problems they might have encountered. Entwined with Louise's history is that of …
Everything Is Relative: Frances Elizabeth Mease Barrow (Aunt Fanny) And Sarah Leaming Barrow Holly (Aunt Fanny's Daughter), Deidre A. Johnson
Everything Is Relative: Frances Elizabeth Mease Barrow (Aunt Fanny) And Sarah Leaming Barrow Holly (Aunt Fanny's Daughter), Deidre A. Johnson
English Faculty Publications
For more than forty years Frances Elizabeth Mease Barrow's name – or, rather, that of her pseudonym, "Aunt Fanny" – remained before the public. In the 1850s and 1860s, she published five quirkily-titled series combining humor, moral instruction, and social awareness. By the 1870s and 1880s, her name was associated with children's charities and with club activities and literary salons. When she died in 1894, one obituary characterized her both as an author whose children's books "delighted the grandfathers and grandmothers of the present day" and as "a social star, known to everybody as 'Aunt Fanny.'" Yet even though her …
Writing "Under The Most Trying Circumstances": The Life And Interrupted Career Of Harriet Putnam Hill Nowell (May Mannering, Harriet Putnam), Deidre Johnson
Writing "Under The Most Trying Circumstances": The Life And Interrupted Career Of Harriet Putnam Hill Nowell (May Mannering, Harriet Putnam), Deidre Johnson
English Faculty Publications
Harriet Putnam Hill Nowell is one of several authors who fall into two of the general categories for this study – wives of ministers and women responsible for only one series. Like other ministers' spouses, she wrote to supplement the family income and submitted some of her work to denominational publishers; unlike her counterparts, she had a husband who left the ministry after less than a decade, though that did not deter her from sending stories to religious periodicals. Like several of the other women with only one series, she found a publisher in Lee & Shepard during the firm's …
Voice In Verse: Four Outstanding Mentor Texts, Pauline Skowron Schmidt
Voice In Verse: Four Outstanding Mentor Texts, Pauline Skowron Schmidt
English Faculty Publications
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Josephine Lawrence: A Writer Of Her Time, Deidre A. Johnson
Josephine Lawrence: A Writer Of Her Time, Deidre A. Johnson
English Faculty Publications
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Reading Aloud: Poetry At Its Finest, Pauline Skowron Schmidt
Reading Aloud: Poetry At Its Finest, Pauline Skowron Schmidt
English Faculty Publications
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Will You Go Out With Me? Why First Loves Are Painfully Important To Ya Lit, Emilee Hussack, Pauline Skowron Schmidt
Will You Go Out With Me? Why First Loves Are Painfully Important To Ya Lit, Emilee Hussack, Pauline Skowron Schmidt
English Faculty Publications
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“The More Things Change . . .”: A New Generation Of Historical Fiction, Pauline Skowron Schmidt
“The More Things Change . . .”: A New Generation Of Historical Fiction, Pauline Skowron Schmidt
English Faculty Publications
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Where Is The Girl Power? The Search For Authentic Portrayals Of Female Athletes In Ya Lit, Emilee Hussack, Pauline Skowron Schmidt
Where Is The Girl Power? The Search For Authentic Portrayals Of Female Athletes In Ya Lit, Emilee Hussack, Pauline Skowron Schmidt
English Faculty Publications
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We’Re Not Kidding: Nonfiction Texts To Use Across The Curriculum, Emilee Hussack, Pauline Skowron Schmidt
We’Re Not Kidding: Nonfiction Texts To Use Across The Curriculum, Emilee Hussack, Pauline Skowron Schmidt
English Faculty Publications
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Tough Talk: Books About Bullying, Pauline Skowron Schmidt, Jennifer Stuntz, Emilee Hussack
Tough Talk: Books About Bullying, Pauline Skowron Schmidt, Jennifer Stuntz, Emilee Hussack
English Faculty Publications
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Let’S Hear It For The Girls: Resilient And Remarkable Women In Today’S Ya Literature, Pauline Skowron Schmidt
Let’S Hear It For The Girls: Resilient And Remarkable Women In Today’S Ya Literature, Pauline Skowron Schmidt
English Faculty Publications
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"Writing 6 Days Out Of 7": The Publishing History Of Mrs. E. Burke Collins, Deidre A. Johnson
"Writing 6 Days Out Of 7": The Publishing History Of Mrs. E. Burke Collins, Deidre A. Johnson
English Faculty Publications
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Mystery Within Mystery: E. Burke Collins And "Dare The Detective", Deidre A. Johnson
Mystery Within Mystery: E. Burke Collins And "Dare The Detective", Deidre A. Johnson
English Faculty Publications
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Joyous Peggy And Amazing Lillian: The Life And Works Of Lillian Grace Copp, Deidre A. Johnson
Joyous Peggy And Amazing Lillian: The Life And Works Of Lillian Grace Copp, Deidre A. Johnson
English Faculty Publications
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Transitions: From Nell Cody To Nancy Drew, From Bungalow Outline To Book, Deidre A. Johnson
Transitions: From Nell Cody To Nancy Drew, From Bungalow Outline To Book, Deidre A. Johnson
English Faculty Publications
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