Elizabeth Richardson (1921-27), Pauline Pfeiffer (1927-40), Martha Gellhorn (1940-45) and Mary Welsh (1946-61) were all wives of which American writer?
"film a 50% score based on 10 reviews, with an average rating of 4.7/10. Hemingway & Gellhorn Hemingway & Gellhorn is an HBO biopic film about the lives of journalist Martha Gellhorn and her husband, writer Ernest Hemingway. It was directed by Philip Kaufman, and first aired on HBO on May 28, 2012. Telling the story of one of America’s most famous literary couples, the movie begins in 1936 when the pair meet for the first time in a chance encounter in a Key West bar in Florida. They encounter each other again a year later in Spain, while both"
"Edith Wharton Edith Wharton (; born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper class New York aristocracy to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1921. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996. Edith Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones on January 24, 1862 to George Frederic Jones and Lucretia Stevens Rhinelander at their brownstone at 14"
"Elizabeth Robins Pennell Elizabeth Robins Pennell (February 21, 1855 – February 7, 1936) was an American writer who, for most of her adult life, made her home in London. A recent researcher summed her up as ""an adventurous, accomplished, self-assured, well-known columnist, biographer, cookbook collector, and art critic""; in addition, she wrote travelogues, mainly of European cycling voyages, and memoirs, centred on her London salon. Her biographies included the first in almost a century of the proto-feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, one of her uncle the folklorist Charles Godfrey Leland, and one of her friend the painter Whistler. In recent years, her"
"Elizabeth Wooster Stuart Phelps Elizabeth Wooster Stuart Phelps (1815–1852) was an American writer of religiously themed articles, adult domestic fiction and books for children. She wrote eleven books as well as numerous articles and stories that were translated and published in many languages, and probably many more works that appeared anonymously. Phelps wrote ""at the beginning of the transition in American women's writing from domestic sentimentality to regional realism"" and was ""among the earliest depicters of the New England scene, antedating the regional novels of her Andover neighbor, Harriet Beecher Stowe"". In addition to being one of the earliest known"
"to her daughter Beatrix in 1917. After Mary's death in 1935, her daughter and son-in-law turned Reef Point into a horticultural study center. Mary Cadwalader Rawle Jones Mary Cadwalader Rawle Jones (December 12, 1850 – September 22, 1935) was an American author and socialite during the Gilded Age. Mary, who was known as Minnie, was born on December 12, 1850 at Powel House, her family home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of William Henry Rawle (1823–1889) and Mary Binney (née Cadwalader) Rawle (1829–1861), both from prominent old Philadelphia families, the Rawles and the Cadwaladers. She had one younger"
"Virginia Woolf Adeline Virginia Woolf (; née Stephen; 25 January 188228 March 1941) was a British writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. Woolf was born into an affluent household in South Kensington, London, the seventh child in a blended family of eight. Her mother, Julia Prinsep Jackson, celebrated as a Pre-Raphaelite artist's model, had three children from her first marriage; her father, Leslie Stephen, a notable man of letters, had one previous daughter; their marriage produced another four children, including the modernist"
"20, and Richardson was 28. They married in 1921 and soon moved to Paris. There they met Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein and James Joyce. Their marriage fell apart as Hemingway began having an affair with Richardson's friend, Pauline Pfeiffer. ""The Paris Wife"" was popular with readers, and ""shot to the top of the New York Times best-seller list soon after its release in 2011."" Helen Simonson praised the book, writing, ""I loved this novel for its depiction of two passionate, yet humanly-flawed people struggling against impossible odds—poverty, artistic fervor, destructive friendships—to cling on to each other."" Though"
"Pat Welsh (author) Patricia Ruth Fisher-Smith Welsh, also known as Pat Welsh and Patricia Fisher, (1929) is an American television performer, columnist, garden editor, public speaker, and author. Welsh is known for her books, videos, and television programs on gardening. She is also known as an early advocate of using Mediterranean gardening techniques in the coastal areas of California. She was born in Halifax, Yorkshire, England, in 1929 to Emerson Lyman Fisher-Smith and Ruth Beatrice Ambler. Her parents were socialites who lost their money and residence in the Wall Street Crash of 1929. The family was forced to live with"
"National Register of Historic Places. Richards contributed poetry to ""St. Nicholas Magazine"". Laura E. Richards Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards (February 27, 1850 – January 14, 1943) was an American writer. She wrote more than 90 books including biographies, poetry, and several for children. One well-known children's poem is her literary nonsense verse ""Eletelephony"". Laura Elizabeth Howe was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on February 27, 1850. Her father was Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, an abolitionist and the founder of the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind. She was named after his famous deaf-blind pupil Laura Bridgman. Her mother Julia"
"for the screen in ""Rhapsody"" (1954) starring Elizabeth Taylor, with the setting in Switzerland rather than Germany. It ended with ""James Guest"" happily married, rather than committing suicide. Henry Handel Richardson Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson (3 January 187020 March 1946), known by her pen name Henry Handel Richardson, was an Australian author. Born in East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, into a prosperous family that later fell on hard times, Ethel Florence (who preferred to answer to Et, Ettie or Etta) was the elder daughter of Walter Lindesay Richardson MD (c. 1826–1879) and his wife Mary (née Bailey). The family lived in"
"sung throughout the country. She married Rev. Shadrach Washington on July 14, 1859. He was a graduate of Rochester University and of Rochester Theological Seminary, served prominent churches in both eastern and western United States, and was at one time pastor of the Baptist Church in Port Jervis, New York. She was the mother of Irvin (b. 1860), Edward Everett (1862-1862), Martha Almira (b. 1865), Lucy May (b. 1867), Emma Marion (1870-1871), and Eleanor (b. 1872). Washington died in 1913. Lucy Hall Washington Lucy Hall Washington (January 4, 1835 – 1913) was an American poet and social reformer in the"
"of 91. She had nine grandchildren and three great-grandchildren, at the time of her death. Patricia Ziegfeld Stephenson Patricia Ziegfeld Stephenson (October 23, 1916 – April 11, 2008) was an American author. Patricia Ziegfeld was born in New York City in 1916 to Florenz Ziegfeld and Billie Burke. She grew up in Hastings-on-Hudson in Westchester County, New York. She also lived at the family's home in Palm Beach, Florida. Her father died in 1932 and she moved to California with her mother. She attended UCLA then did some acting and writing for newspapers. She married William Robert Stephenson, Sr. (1912–2007)"
"Henrietta Maria, of whom she published a biography in 2001. She continued with ‘In a Free Republic - life in Cromwell's England’ (2006) and the last of her 25 books ‘The Winter Queen’ (about Elizabeth Stuart, wife of Frederick V, Elector Palatine who accepted the crown of Bohemia), to be published posthumously in 2008. She was devoted to animal welfare, and shared her home with two cats. She was unmarried. Alison Plowden Alison Margaret Chichele Plowden (18 December 1931–17 August 2007) was an English historian and biographer well known for her popular non-fiction about the Tudor period. She was born"
"in 1878. Despite bad health from 1881 onwards, she continued an active life. In 1889 she was vice-president of the Ohio Women's Press Club. In 1890 she founded the Woman's Club of Bellefontaine, Ohio. Virginia Sharpe Patterson Mrs Anne Virginia Sharpe Patterson (September 1841, Delaware, Ohio – 1913) was an American author, who also wrote under the pseudonym Garry Gaines. Anne Virginia Sharpe was the daughter of George W. Sharpe, the youngest member of the Maryland Senate, and Caroline Snyder. Home-educated by her father until his death, she then attended the Delaware Female Seminary for three years. Upon marriage she"
"Her novel, ""Trixy"", published in 1904, was constructed around the topic of vivisection and the effect this kind of training had on doctors. The book became a standard polemic against experimentation on animals. Elizabeth (August 31, 1844 – January 28, 1911) was born in Andover, Massachusetts to American Congregational minister Austin Phelps and Elizabeth Wooster Stuart Phelps (1815–1852). Her baptismal name was Mary Gray Phelps, after a close friend of her mother's. Her mother wrote the Kitty Brown series of books for girls under the pen name H. Trusta. Her brother, Moses Stuart Phelps, was born in 1849. Her mother"
"women. In 1968, Washington University created the Edna Fischel Gellhorn Professorship of Public Affairs. At age 79, Gellhorn was selected as Woman of Achievement by the ""St. Louis Globe-Democrat"". She died in St. Louis in 1970. Her papers are held in the collection of Washington University. Edna Fischel Gellhorn's daughter, Martha Gellhorn, was a war reporter.[2] Edna Fischel Gellhorn Edna Fischel Gellhorn (1878 – 1970) was an American suffragist and reformer who played a prominent role in founding the National League of Women Voters. Edna Fischel Gellhorn was born on December 18, 1878 in St. Louis, Missouri. Her father taught"
"Chicago (1892–93) and Italy (1894-1900/1906-1910), before moving to Newport where she spent the rest of her life. She was a patron of the arts, was a founding member of the Newport Art Association, and served as its secretary from 1912-1942. Howe was also a founder of the Progressive Party and took part in the suffrage movement. She died in 1948 in Newport, Rhode Island. Maud Howe Elliott Maud Howe Elliott (November 9, 1854 – March 19, 1948) was an American writer, most notable for her Pulitzer prize-winning collaboration with her sisters, Laura E. Richards and Florence Hall, on their mother's"
"each one, and... fascinating to read about."" Elizabeth Enright Elizabeth Wright Enright Gillham (September 17, 1907 – June 8, 1968) was an American writer of children's books, an illustrator, writer of short stories for adults, literary critic and teacher of creative writing. Perhaps best known as the Newbery Medal-winning author of ""Thimble Summer"" (1938) and the Newbery runner-up ""Gone-Away Lake"" (1957), she also wrote the popular Melendy quartet (1941 to 1951). A Newbery Medal laureate and a multiple winner of the O. Henry Award, her short stories and articles for adults appeared in many popular magazines and have been reprinted"
"Biographical Society, 1904. ▪ ""The Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature."" Edited by Claire Buck. New York: Prentice Hall General Reference, 1992. Biographies begin on page 247. ▪ ""The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States."" Edited by Cathy N. Davidson and Linda Wagner-Martin. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Elizabeth Wooster Stuart Phelps Elizabeth Wooster Stuart Phelps (1815–1852) was an American writer of religiously themed articles, adult domestic fiction and books for children. She wrote eleven books as well as numerous articles and stories that were translated and published in many languages, and probably many more works that"
"her partner Martin Ross in 1915. Dublin's Annie M. P. Smithson was one of several authors catering for fans of romantic fiction in the 1920s and 1930s. After the Second World War, popular novels were published by, among others, Brian O'Nolan, who published as Flann O'Brien, Elizabeth Bowen, and Kate O'Brien. During the final decades of the 20th century, Edna O'Brien, John McGahern, Maeve Binchy, Joseph O'Connor, Roddy Doyle, Colm Tóibín, and John Banville came to the fore as novelists. Patricia Lynch was a prolific children's author in the 20th century, while Eoin Colfer's works were NYT Best Sellers in"
"Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward (August 31, 1844 – January 28, 1911) was an early feminist American author and intellectual who challenged traditional Christian beliefs of the afterlife, challenged women's traditional roles in marriage and family, and advocated clothing reform for women. In 1868, three years after the Civil War ended, she published ""The Gates Ajar"", which depicted the afterlife as a place replete with the comforts of domestic life and where families would be reunited—along with family pets—through eternity. In her 40s, Phelps broke convention again when she married a man 17 years her junior. Later"
"Elizabeth Wharton Drexel Elizabeth Wharton ""Bessie"" Drexel Hope de la Poer Beresford, Baroness Decies (April 22, 1868 – June 13, 1944) was an American author and Manhattan socialite. She was born on April 22, 1868 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Lucy Wharton (1841–1912) and Joseph William Drexel. Joseph was the son of Francis Martin Drexel, the immigrant ancestor of the Drexel banking family in the United States. Elizabeth was an author, who published two books, """"King Lehr"" and the Gilded Age"" (1935) and ""Turn of the World"" (1937). Her first novel, published after the death of her second husband, was described"
"Mrs. Henry B. Harris, Mr.† and Mrs. Arthur L. Ryerson, Mr.† and Mrs.† Hudson J. C. Allison, Mr. and Mrs. Dickinson Bishop, noted architect Edward Austin Kent†, brewery heir Harry Molson†, tennis players Karl Behr and Dick Williams, author and socialite Helen Churchill Candee, future lawyer and suffragette Elsie Bowerman and her mother Edith, journalist and social reformer William Thomas Stead†, journalist and fashion buyer Edith Rosenbaum, Philadelphia and New York socialite Edith Corse Evans†, wealthy divorcée Charlotte Drake Cardeza, French sculptor , author Jacques Futrelle† with his wife May, silent film actress Dorothy Gibson with her mother Pauline, Alfons"
"after college. ▪ Husband—Austin Phelps – Professor at Andover Theological Seminary. ▪ Daughter—Mary Gray, author, renamed Elizabeth Stuart Phelps after her mother died. Became Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward after she married Herbert Dickinson Ward, a journalist. ▪ Little Kitty Brown and Her Bible Verses. (1851) ▪ Kitty Brown and Her City Cousins. (1852) ▪ Kitty Brown and Her Little School. (1852) ▪ Kitty Brown Beginning to Think. (1853) ▪ The Sunny Side and a Peep at Number Five. (1853) ▪ The Sunny Side; or, The Country Minister's Wife. (1851) ▪ A Peep at Number Five; or, A Chapter in the"
"Julia Cruger Julia Grinnell Storrow Cruger (c. 1850 – July 12, 1920) was an American novelist who wrote under the pseudonym Julien Gordon. Because many of her books examined the American social world, she was known as the Edith Wharton of her day. Born Julia Grinnell Storrow in Paris, France, she was the daughter of Thomas Wentworth Storrow of Boston and a grandniece of Washington Irving. She married Civil War veteran Col. Stephen Van Rensselaer Cruger, grandson of Stephen Van Rensselaer, who died in 1898, leaving her independently well off. She married broker Wade Chance in 1908; they separated after"
"in London in November 2011, from the effects of alcoholic excess. Clippings, Photographs, Objects, Drawings, State Library of New South Wales, MLMSS 5341 , MLOH 62 P. L. Travers Pamela Lyndon Travers, (; born Helen Lyndon Goff; 9 August 1899 – 23 April 1996), was an Australian-born British writer who spent most of her career in England. She is best known for the ""Mary Poppins"" series of children's books, which feature the magical nanny Mary Poppins. Goff was born in Maryborough, Queensland, and grew up in the Australian bush before being sent to boarding school in Sydney. Her writing was"
"P. L. Travers Pamela Lyndon Travers, (; born Helen Lyndon Goff; 9 August 1899 – 23 April 1996), was an Australian-born British writer who spent most of her career in England. She is best known for the ""Mary Poppins"" series of children's books, which feature the magical nanny Mary Poppins. Goff was born in Maryborough, Queensland, and grew up in the Australian bush before being sent to boarding school in Sydney. Her writing was first published as a teenager, and she also worked briefly as a professional Shakespearean actress. Upon emigrating to England at the age of 25, she took"
"Elisabeth Hirsch Elisabeth Hirsch, pen name E. C. Stilson (born February 2, 1983) is an American publisher and editor, and was one of the founders of Wayman Publishing. Stilson is also known for her memoirs, musical talents, and personal appearances speaking across the United States. Stilson's father, Phil Stilson, is the president of a construction company, Most Wanted Drilling; her mother, Ruby Stilson, is an accountant and percussionist. Stilson's older siblings Julie Laub (a high school chemistry teacher) and Shane Stilson (a published author and mechanical engineer) were strong influences on the youth. The latter became an integral literary and"
"Katharine Graham Katharine Meyer Graham (June 16, 1917 – July 17, 2001) was an American publisher and the second female publisher of a major American newspaper, following Eliza Jane Nicholson's ownership of the New Orleans Daily Picayune (1876-1896). She led her family's newspaper, ""The Washington Post"", for more than two decades, overseeing its most famous period: the Watergate coverage that eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. Her memoir, ""Personal History"", won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998. Katharine Meyer was born in 1917 into a wealthy family in New York City, to Agnes Elizabeth (née Ernst) and Eugene"
"Laura E. Richards Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards (February 27, 1850 – January 14, 1943) was an American writer. She wrote more than 90 books including biographies, poetry, and several for children. One well-known children's poem is her literary nonsense verse ""Eletelephony"". Laura Elizabeth Howe was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on February 27, 1850. Her father was Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, an abolitionist and the founder of the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind. She was named after his famous deaf-blind pupil Laura Bridgman. Her mother Julia Ward Howe wrote the words to ""The Battle Hymn of the Republic""."
"Elizabeth Ayrton Elisabeth Ayrton (2 February 1910 – 15 November 1991) was a British novelist and writer on cookery. Ayrton was born in Worplesdon in 1910. She was the daughter of the novelist Douglas Walshe and the writer Phyllis Sydney. She and her two siblings lived in Worplesdon. Ayrton was married twice, firstly in 1933 to Nigel Balchin. She had met him at Cambridge where she was reading English, archaeology and anthropology at Newnham Their first child Prudence Ann was born in 1934. Penelope Jane Balchin was born in 1937 and she was better known as childcare expert Dr Penelope"
"Edna Beilenson Edna Rudolph Beilenson (1909–1981) was an American typographer, fine press printer, typesetter, book designer, cook book author, publisher, and co-proprietor (with her husband, Peter Beilenson) of the Peter Pauper Press from 1931 until his death in 1962, and afterward its sole proprietor and president until her death in 1981. Edna Rudolph was born June 16, 1909, in New York City, the daughter of the artist John and Anna (Beilenson) Rudolph. She graduated ""cum laude"" with a degree in journalism from Hunter College in 1928. In 1930, Rudolph married her cousin, Peter Beilenson, who had founded the Peter Pauper"
"that and, by God, every time she came on she was keeping up”. All of these women, the first class of females to enter the broadcasting field, owe their opportunity in some way to the first, Pauline Frederick. Pauline Frederick (journalist) Pauline Frederick (February 13, 1908 – May 9, 1990) was an American journalist in newspapers, radio and television, as well as co-author of a book in 1941 and sole author of a book in 1967. in her nearly 50-year career, she covered numerous stories ranging from politics and articles of particular interest to women to military conflicts, and public"