Patience Stapleton
Patience Stapleton | |
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| Born | Martha Armstrong Tucker  March 9, 1861 Wiscasset |
| Died | November 25, 1893 (aged 32) New York City |
| Resting place | Woodlawn Cemetery |
| Occupation | Writer, journalist |
| Family | Richard Hawley Tucker |
Patience Stapleton (9 March 1861 – 25 November 1893) was an American novelist and journalist.
She was born Martha Armstrong Tucker on 9 March 1861 in Wiscasset, Maine, one of six children of Richard Holbrook Tucker, a sea captain, and Mary Geraldine Armstrong Tucker. She grew up in the family home, Castle Tucker, in Wiscasset. Her brother was the astronomer Richard Hawley Tucker.[1][2][3][4]
She was educated at a convent in Whitefield, Maine, a boarding school called The Willows in Farmington, Maine, where she produced her first play at the age of 15, and the Moravian Seminary in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. After graduating in 1877, she spent a year as a public school teacher in Bethlehem. She published her first short story, "Jim", in The Youth's Companion in 1879.[1][4]
Patience Stapleton died on 25 November 1893 in New York City, a few days after an operation to remove a tumor.[1][5]
Bibliography[edit]
- The Major's Christmas, and Other Stories. Denver, 1886.[6]
- Kady. Chicago: Belford, Clarke, 1888[7]
- My Sister's Husband. J. W. Lovell, 1889.[8]
- Babe Murphy. Chicago: Belford, Clarke, 1890[7]
- Rose Geranium, A Tragedy. Chicago: Morrill, Higgins, 1892[9]
- My Jean. Chicago: Morrill, Higgins, 1893.[8]
- Trailing Yew: A Story of Monhegan. Boston: Hudson Printing Co., 1921[10]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c Dalton, Joann (Summer 1976). "Patience Stapleton: A Forgotten Frontier Writer" (PDF). Colorado Magazine. 53 (3): 261–276.
- ^ Ray Bearse, ed. (1969). Maine: a guide to the Vacation State. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
- ^ Chase, Fannie Scott (1941). Wiscasset in Pownalborough; a history of the shire town and the salient historical features of the territory between the Sheepscot and Kennebec rivers. Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center. Wiscasset, Me., [The Southworth-Anthoensen Press].
- ^ a b "Tucker family papers". Historic New England.
- ^ "Obituary". New York Times. 26 Nov 1893. p. 5.
- ^ Allibone, S. Austin (Samuel Austin) (1870). A critical dictionary of English literature and British and American authors, living and deceased, from the earliest accounts to the latter half of the nineteenth century : containing over forty-six thousand articles (authors), with forty indexes of subjects. Cornell University Library. Philadelphia : Lippincott.
- ^ a b Baym, Nina (2011). Women writers of the American West, 1833–1927. Internet Archive. Urbana, Chicago : University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-03597-5.
- ^ a b R.R. Bowker Company. Dept. of Bibliography; R.R. Bowker Company. Publications Systems Dept (1983). Fiction, 1876-1983 : a bibliography of United States editions : classified author index, main author index, title index, key to publishers and distributors abbreviations/directory of publishers and distributors. Internet Archive. New York : Bowker. ISBN 978-0-8352-1880-1.
- ^ Grimes, Janet (1981). Novels in English by women, 1891–1920 : a preliminary checklist. Internet Archive. New York : Garland Pub. ISBN 978-0-8240-9522-2.
- ^ Smith, Geoffrey D. (Geoffrey Dayton) (1997). American fiction, 1901–1925 : a bibliography. Internet Archive. Cambridge, U.K. : Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-43469-0.