Elia
Wilkinson
Peattie
Born:
01/15/1862
Kalamazoo
,
MI
Died: 1935
Parents: Frederick Wilkinson, Amanda Wilkinson
Spouse: Robert B.
Children: Edward, Barbara, Roderick, Donald
Died: 1935
Parents: Frederick Wilkinson, Amanda Wilkinson
Spouse: Robert B.
Children: Edward, Barbara, Roderick, Donald
Writings
Image | Title | Genre | Audience | Publisher | Date |
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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 |
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Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Journalism | Michigan State University | East Lansing , MI | 1973 -1977 |
Career:
Position | Organization | Location | Date |
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Literary critic | Chicago Tribune | Chicago | 1901 -1917 |
Editorial writer | Omaha World-Herald | Omaha | 1889 |
Reporter
- First woman reporter |
Chicago newspapers | Chicago | 1888 |
Other Resources:
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