Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott ( Mrs. Fordyce Coburn ) ( born September 22, 1872 in Cambridge (Massachusetts ), † June 4, 1958 in Portsmouth (New Hampshire) ) was an American poet, novelist and children's book author.

Life

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott was the youngest daughter of the clergyman Edward Abbott and Clara Davis Abbott. Like her father and her uncle Lyman Abbott was a member of the clerical state. My paternal grandfather was the famous American youth writer Jacob Abbott. She grew up in a religious and scholarly atmosphere and attended private schools in her hometown of Cambridge. Although she did not like teaching and counted more likely to be poorer students, the teachers challenged her first literary attempts. Later she attended Radcliffe College. For four years she practiced the profession of a private secretary and an English teacher at Lowell State Normal School in Massachusetts.

In November 1908 Abbott celebrated their wedding with the doctor Fordyce Coburn. Soon after, the couple moved to a located near Wilton, New Hampshire estate. With her ​​husband, who supported her in her literary ambitions, she led a harmonious marriage, but for which emerged children. Her hobbies were, inter alia, horseback riding and hiking.

Abbott's early poems and short stories were not considered. Shortly after her marriage she had first literary success. In 1909 the major American magazine Harper 's Magazine, two of her longer poems. The next year, her most famous novel, Molly Make- Believe published. Altogether she wrote 14 novels and 75 short stories. Your success in the 1910s and 1920s works always have a very romantic, though often banal storyline and go always good. Their protagonists are bold, nervous and talkative young girl; their male characters, are characterized more by tranquility, steadfastness and patient endurance of suffering. The acts and characters of her novels are perceived by critics as very often unrealistic. 1921 issued Abbott Grimm 's Fairy Tales. In 1936, her autobiography Being Little in Cambridge When Everyone Else What Big, in which she describes her very emotionally conservative dominated youth in Cambridge.

At the age Abbott suffered from chronic arthritis. She was 85 years old and died in 1958.

Works

  • Molly Make- Believe ( 1910)
  • The Sick -A- Bed Lady, and Other Stories (1911 )
  • White Linen Nurse ( 1913)
  • Little Eve Edgarton (1914 )
  • The Indiscreet Letter ( 1915)
  • The Stingy Receiver (1917 )
  • The Ne'er -Do -Much (1918 )
  • Love and Mrs. Kendrue (1919)
  • Old Dad (1919)
  • Peace on Earth ( 1920)
  • Rainy Week ( 1921)
  • Fairy Prince and Other Stories (1922 )
  • Silver Moon (1923 )
  • Love and the Ladies ( 1928)
  • But Once a Year: Christmas Stories (1928 )
  • The Minister Who Kicked the Cat, and Other Stories (1932 )
  • Being Little in Cambridge When Everyone Else What Big ( autobiography, 1936)
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