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Myra Kelly was born on August 26, 1875 in Dublin, Ireland, of Irish parents, Dr. James Edward and Annie (Morrogh) Kelly. When she was a child the family came to New York City, where Dr. Kelly developed a large practice on the East Side.
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Myra Kelly was born on August 26, 1875 in Dublin, Ireland, of Irish parents, Dr. James Edward and Annie (Morrogh) Kelly. When she was a child the family came to New York City, where Dr. Kelly developed a large practice on the East Side.
Myra was educated at the Mt. Saint Vincent and Sacred Heart convents, the Horace Mann School, and Teachers College, Columbia University, where, in 1899, she received a diploma as a teacher of manual training.
Kelly's familiarity with the East Side and interest in its denizens made her choose that as her first field of work. She taught for two years at No. 147 public school, east of the Bowery, where her pupils were of many nationalities, speaking many tongues. Here she rapidly gathered literary material. She was critic teacher at the Speyer School, Teachers College, 1902-1903, and during this time began to put her East Side experiences into stories.
Her first story, "A Christmas Present for a Lady, " was sent to two magazines, with the idea that both would probably reject it. Both accepted it and some complications in adjustment followed. This successful beginning proved an omen for her future literary career, and she told friends long afterward that no manuscript of hers had ever been rejected. Her first volume appeared in 1904, Little Citizens; the Humours of School Life, stories which are almost entirely accounts of her own experiences as a teacher in No. 147. There she had learned not only the physical and mental characteristics of her pupils but their dialect expressions and tricks of behavior, which enabled her to write genuine realism. As a teacher, she had also visited the homes of the children and become acquainted with the mothers, always less American than the children, but welcoming her because of her delicate, sweet personality and her sympathy which never appeared like curiosity.
In 1909 she wrote for publication by the American Association for International Conciliation a pamphlet, The American Public School as a Factor in International Conciliation. Myra Kelly's stories, almost all about children, have interested people of all ages. Each narrates some human episode and illustrates some characteristic of the immigrant New Yorkers who were the models for her characters. She had mastery of both pathos and humor and her short story technique was admirable.
Never very robust, Myra Kelly's health became impaired, tuberculosis developed, and, in the hope of a cure, she went to Torquay, on the English Channel, where she died and was buried
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Kelly's collection Little Citizens aroused the interest of Allan Macnaughtan, president of the Standard Coach Horse Company. He sought an acquaintance, and in August 1905 they were married. They had one child, a boy, who died in infancy. At one time they were associated with a project for establishing a literary colony at Oldchester Village, Orange Mountain, New Jersey, and lived there for a while.
