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Mary Sifton Pepper

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Mary Sifton Pepper
A white woman wearing eyeglasses, a black velvet choker band, and a black dress with a wide sweetheart neckline. Her hair is in an updo.
Bornc. 1862
Died1908
Occupation(s)Journalist, translator
Notable workMaids and Matrons of New France

Mary Sifton Pepper (born about 1862; died 1908) was an American journalist and translator, author of Maids and Matrons of New France (1901), an early work in Canadian women's history.

Early life

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Pepper was the daughter of George Whitfield Pepper and Christine Lindsay Pepper. Her parents were both born in Ireland; her father, who served as a chaplain in the American Civil War,[1][2] was a clergyman, writer, and diplomat.[3][4] She lived in Milan from 1891 to 1895,[5] and traveled in Europe while her father was based there.[6]

Mary Sifton Pepper graduated from the College of Wooster in Ohio, in 1883.[6][7] Her brother Charles M. Pepper[8] and her sisters Caroline Lipton Pepper[9] and Lena Lindsay Pepper were also writers.[5]

Career

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In the 1890s Pepper was a translator of French and Italian on the 73-volume edition of The Jesuit Relations,[10] documents related to the work of European Jesuit missionaries in North America.[6] From her experience on that project, she wrote Maids and Matrons of New France (1901),[11] an early work in Canadian women's history.[12][13] Her book was praised as "a volume which is not only peculiarly absorbing but which in the main covers unbroken ground."[14]

As a journalist, she wrote a profile of Queen Margherita of Italy for Godey's Magazine in 1896.[15] She also wrote a biographical article on Italian poet Giosuè Carducci.[16]

Personal life

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Pepper lived in Cleveland, Ohio.[5] She died in 1908.[12]

References

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  1. ^ The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. J.T. White. 1906. p. 204.
  2. ^ Pepper, George Whitfield (1868). Ireland ... Liberty springs from her martyr's blood. Boston: Patrick Donahoe. hdl:2027/loc.ark:/13960/t0ms47g4x.
  3. ^ Minutes of the ... Annual Session of the North Ohio Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Cleveland Printing & Publishing Company. 1889. pp. 76–78.
  4. ^ "Rev. George W. Pepper Died in Cleveland". The San Francisco Call. 1899-08-07. p. 2. Retrieved 2020-05-25 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ a b c "Mary Sifton Pepper". Book News. 20: 573. March 1902.
  6. ^ a b c "Highways and Byways". The Chautauquan. 32: 13–14. October 1900.
  7. ^ "Alumni Banquet". The Wooster Voice. June 18, 1903. Retrieved May 24, 2020.
  8. ^ Who's who in the Nation's Capital. Consolidated Publishing Company. 1921. p. 305.
  9. ^ "Death of a Bright Lady Journalist". The Summit County Beacon. 1890-05-28. p. 7. Retrieved 2020-05-25 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ Thwaites, Reuben Gold (1897). The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the Jesuit Missionaries in New France, 1610-1791; the Original French, Latin, and Italian Texts, with English Translations and Notes; Illustrated by Portraits, Maps, and Facsimiles. Burrows brothers Company.
  11. ^ Pepper, Mary Sifton (1901). Maids and matrons of New France. Robarts - University of Toronto. Boston : Little, Brown.
  12. ^ a b Dagg, Anne Innis (2006-01-01). The Feminine Gaze: A Canadian Compendium of Non-Fiction Women Authors and Their Books, 1836-1945. Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. p. 238. ISBN 978-0-88920-845-2.
  13. ^ Coates, Colin MacMillan; Morgan, Cecilia Louise (2002-01-01). Heroines and History: Representations of Madeleine de Verchères and Laura Secord. University of Toronto Press. p. 62. ISBN 978-0-8020-8330-2.
  14. ^ Gilder, Jeannette Leonard; Gilder, Joseph Benson (Christmas 1901). "The Book Buyers' Guide". The Critic. 39: 580.
  15. ^ Pepper, Mary Sifton (May 1896). "Queen Margherita at Monza". Godey's Magazine. 132: 525–529.
  16. ^ Shaw, Albert (March 1897). "Other Articles". Review of Reviews. 15: 363.