Elia Wilkinson Peattie

Born: 01/15/1862   Kalamazoo , MI
Died: 1935
Parents: Frederick Wilkinson, Amanda Wilkinson
Spouse: Robert B.
Children: Edward, Barbara, Roderick, Donald

Writings

Image Title Genre Audience Publisher Date
The Wander Weed and seven other little theater plays Drama Adult Chicago, C. H. Sergel and company 1923
Painted Windows
- Autobiographical memory
Poetry Adult New York: George H. Doran Company 1918
The Newcomers Poetry Adult Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin Company 1916
Sarah Brewster's relatives
- Sarah and her step-mother don't get along and when the step-mother decides to re-marry, Sarah is sent to live with her uncle and his family
Poetry Teen Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Company 1916
Lotta Embury's Career Poetry Adult Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin Company 1915
Azalea at Sunset Gap Fiction Teen Chicago, Ill. : Reilly & Britton Co 1914
Azalea; the story of a girl in the Blue Ridge Mountains Fiction Teen Chicago : The Reilly & Britton Co. 1912
Edda and the Oak Poetry Adult Chicago, New York [etc.] : Rand, McNally and Co. 1911
Poems You Ought to Know
- Reprinted from the Chicago tribune.
Poetry Adult Chicago, New York: Fleming H. Revell Company 1903
The Beleaguered Forest Fiction , Michigan Adult New York, Appleton 1901
How Jaques came into the Forest of Arden : an impertinence Non Fiction Adult Chicago : Blue Sky Press 1901
The Shape of Fear: and Other Ghostly Tales Fiction , Short Stories , Supernatural/Paranormal Adult New York, Macmillan 1899
America in peace and war : an interesting narrative of our country from its discovery down to the present time : the most thrilling and noteworthy incidents of the nation's history described in simple language, including a graphic account of the war between the United States and Spain History Adult Chicago : W.B. Conkey Co. 1898
Pippins and Cheese: Being the Relation of How a Number of Persons Ate a Number of Dinners at Various Times and Places Fiction Adult Chicago, Way and Williams 1897
A Mountain Woman
- Reprinted 1969
Fiction , Short Stories Adult Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press 1896
Our chosen land [electronic resource]. A romantic story of America from the time of its discovery and conquest to the present day History Adult Chicago, Wabash publishing house 1896
With Scrip and Staf: A Tale of the Children's Crusade Fiction Children , Teen New York: A.D.F. Randolph 1891
he story of America containing the romantic incidents of history : from the discovery of America to the present time History Adult Chicago : R.S. King 1889
Other writings:
- wrote for magazines including Century, Lippincott's Magazine, Cosmopolitan Magazine, St. Nicholas, Wide Awake, The American Magazine, America, Harper's Weekly, and San Francisco Argonaut.
What is the aim or goal of your writing: How pleasant to meet a charming journalist of a hundred or so years ago. The prolific Elia Peattie worked in Omaha, primarily for the World-Herald. Her style was neither fusty nor quaint, but informal and above all outspoken. She reported on the growing city, its neighborhoods, its inhabitants, and above all, its problems-poverty, prostitution, racism - not neglecting its folkways. She found weddings "stupid," especially for women, and the imperative of going into full mourning "nonsense." She was also a feminist, a founder of the Omaha Woman's Club, a serious reform organization.

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: No

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author
Other - Journalist

Education:

Degree Institution Location Date
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Journalism Michigan State University East Lansing , MI 1973 -1977

Career:

Position Organization Location Date
Literary critic Chicago Tribune Chicago 1901 -1917
Editorial writer Omaha World-Herald Omaha 1889
Reporter
- First woman reporter
Chicago newspapers Chicago 1888

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