(Originally published in 1922. This volume from the Cornel...)
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A Little Question in Ladies' Rights (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press)
(Parker Hoysted Fillmore (1878-1944) was born in Cincinnat...)
Parker Hoysted Fillmore (1878-1944) was born in Cincinnati. He was graduated from the University of Cincinnati and then taught for three years, 1901-1904, in Government schools in the Philippines. He was secretary of the executive committee of the Allied Members of the MacDowell Colony at Peterborough, New Hampshire. His works include: Czechoslovak Fairy Tales (1919), Shoemaker's Apron (1920), The Laughing Prince (1921), Mighty Mikko (1922) and The Wizard of the North (1923).
The lions of the Lord; a tale of the old West. By: Harry Leon Wilson and Illustrated by: Rose Cecil O'Neill
(Harry Leon Wilson (May 1, 1867 – June 28, 1939) was an Am...)
Harry Leon Wilson (May 1, 1867 – June 28, 1939) was an American novelist and dramatist Harry Leon Wilson was born in Oregon, Illinois, the son of Samuel and Adeline (née Kidder). Samuel was a newspaper publisher, and Harry learned to set type at an early age. He began work as a stenographer after leaving home at sixteen. He worked his way west through Topeka, Omaha, Denver, and eventually to California. He was a contributor to the histories of Hubert Howe Bancroft, and became the private secretary to Virgil Bogue. In December 1886, Wilson's story The Elusive Dollar Bill was accepted by Puck magazine. He continued to contribute to Puck and became assistant editor in 1892. Henry Cuyler Bunner died in 1896 and Wilson replaced him as editor. The publication of The Spenders allowed Wilson to quit Puck in 1902 and devote himself full-time to writing
THE KEWPIE PRIMER text and music by Elizabeth V. Quinn with illustrations and introduction by Rose O'Neill, the inventor of the Kewpies (1980 reproduction version of the original 7.5 x 5.5 inches, 118 pages)
(THE KEWPIE PRIMER text and music by Elizabeth V. Quinn wi...)
THE KEWPIE PRIMER text and music by Elizabeth V. Quinn with illustrations and introduction by Rose O'Neill, the inventor of the Kewpies (1980 reproduction version of the original 7.5 x 5.5 inches, 118 pages)
The boss of Little Arcady . By: Harry Leon Wilson and illustrator Rose Cecil O'Neill
(Harry Leon Wilson (May 1, 1867 – June 28, 1939) was an Am...)
Harry Leon Wilson (May 1, 1867 – June 28, 1939) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels Ruggles of Red Gap and Merton of the Movies. His novel Bunker Bean helped popularize the term flapper Harry Leon Wilson was born in Oregon, Illinois, the son of Samuel and Adeline (née Kidder).Samuel was a newspaper publisher, and Harry learned to set type at an early age. He began work as a stenographer after leaving home at sixteen. He worked his way west through Topeka, Omaha, Denver, and eventually to California. He was a contributor to the histories of Hubert Howe Bancroft, and became the private secretary to Virgil Bogue. In December 1886, Wilson's story The Elusive Dollar Bill was accepted by Puck magazine. He continued to contribute to Puck and became assistant editor in 1892. Henry Cuyler Bunner died in 1896 and Wilson replaced him as editor. The publication of The Spenders allowed Wilson to quit Puck in 1902 and devote himself full-time to writing
The Playmate and Other Stories (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press)
(Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879-1958) who sometimes wrote u...)
Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879-1958) who sometimes wrote under the pseudonym Stanley Cranshaw was an educational reformer, social activist, and best-selling American author in the early decades of the twentieth century. Dorothy Canfield brought the Montessori method of child rearing to the United States, presided over the country's first adult education program, and shaped literary tastes by serving as a member of the Book-of-the-Month Club selection committee from 1925 to 1951. Her best-known work today is probably Understood Betsy (1917), a children's book about a little orphaned girl who is sent to live with her cousins in Vermont. Though the book can be read purely for pleasure, it also describes a schoolhouse which is run much in the style of the Montessori method, for which Canfield was one of the first and most vocal advocates. In 1899 Dorothy Canfield received a B. A. from Ohio State University. Canfield went on to study Romance languages at Columbia University, and in 1904 was one of the few women of her generation to receive a doctoral degree. Amongst her other works are: The Bent Twig (1915), Hillsboro People (1915), and The Brimming Cup (1921).
For Love Of Mary Ellen: A Romance Of Childhood (1912)
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(Rose Cecil O'Neill (1874-1944) was the first female illus...)
Rose Cecil O'Neill (1874-1944) was the first female illustrator of Puck magazine and the creator of the enormously successful Kewpies comics. Her first self-illustrated novel, The Loves of Edwy (1904), was described by the New York Times as "tragedy done in a procession of jests. One should read it in that mellow estate of sentiment, which lies between tears and laughter and induces, moreover, a sort of inversion of things by which you laugh at the weeping place."
Rose Cecil O'Neill was an American illustrator, artist, and writer. She became famous for creation of the popular comic characters, Kewpies, in 1909.
Background
Rose Cecil O'Neill was born on June 25, 1874, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, the second of seven children and oldest daughter of William Patrick and Asenath Cecelia (Smith) O'Neill. Both parents were natives of Pennsylvania; the father was of Irish descent. More interested in the arts than in a steady livelihood, he operated a bookstore in Wilkes-Barre, but during the depression year of 1878 moved his family to a Nebraska homestead and later to Omaha, where he made an uncertain living as a salesman.
Education
Rose O'Neill was educated in parochial schools. She taught herself to draw.
Career
Rose O'Neill at the age of fourteen produced a pen-and-ink sketch ("Temptation Leading down into an Abyss") which won a prize of five dollars offered by the Omaha World-Herald for the best drawing by a pupil in the local schools. After a brief attempt at an acting career, she began selling illustrations to magazines in Denver and Chicago. To secure further training, she went at about seventeen to New York City, where she lived under the care of a Catholic sisterhood on Riverside Drive and sold illustrations to magazines like Truth and Puck. Two years later she rejoined her family, now settled on a three-hundred-acre claim, "Bonniebrook, " in Taney County, Missouri. Having acquainted editors with her work and established a market, she was able to execute her commissions by mail from this Ozark fastness, much to the benefit of the family's finances.
Back in New York in 1896, she was married to Gray Latham, then engaged in trying to develop a successful motion picture projector in the industry's infancy. They divorced in 1901. Her second marriage in 1902 was to Harry Leon Wilson, a former editor of Puck, whose novels The Spenders (1902) and The Lions of the Lord (1903) she illustrated. They separated in September 1907.
Riches began to come to her soon after sketches of her Kewpies - her diminutive for cupids - first appeared in the December 1909 issue of the Ladies' Home Journal. She had frequently drawn similar cherubs as tailpieces for magazine stories, but now, at the suggestion of the Journal's editor, Edward Bok, she devoted a full page to their adventures, along with her commentary in verse. Almost immediately rival editors began to vie for her favor, and for nearly a quarter of a century her jolly little elves disported themselves on the pages of various women's magazines. On March 4, 1913, she patented the Kewpie doll, from which she is estimated to have made more than a million dollars. Royalties came also from Kewpies used as decorations on nursery china, wallpaper and stationery, from figurines for radiator caps and inkwells, and from her many Kewpie books.
Rose O'Neill also produced drawings and paintings of serious intent. Her "secret" art revealed the vein of terror and grotesquerie that lay beneath her public character as an invincibly merry prattler. These pen-and-ink drawings portrayed demonic and titanic figures - their mass built up of minute traceries - in towering or tender juxtaposition to tiny, naked humans. Acclaimed at the time by French and American critics, they were exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1906 (when she was made a member of the Société des Beaux Arts), at the Devambez Galleries in Paris in 1921, and at the Wildenstein Gallery in New York in 1922.
Rose O'Neill published four novels, none of them greatly successful either artistically or commercially. The Loves of Edwy (1904), though too sentimental for present-day taste, is of autobiographical interest, since the hero is an illustrator and the heroine's father is a recognizable portrait of William P. O'Neill. The Lady in the White Veil (1909) is a mystery involving the disappearance of a painting by Titian. Garda (1929) turns upon the quasi-mystical rapport between a brother and his twin sister. The influence of Hawthorne is plain in The Goblin Woman (1930), a Gothic tale in which one character, after murdering his brother by shoving him over a cliff, marries the brother's twelve-year-old daughter, with whom he furtively lives abroad for many years; finally, he attempts to atone for his sins by wearing sackcloth and inflicting upon himself two terrible scars. Rose also published The Master-Mistress (1922), a volume of poems, probably the best of which are those to her mother and sister.
During the Great Depression, after the vogue of the Kewpies had passed, Rose's carelessness about money overtook her, and, almost penniless, she had to give up the Connecticut property and retire to Bonniebrook. Ever hopeful, she invented a new doll, a Buddha-like creature called Ho-Ho, but it never caught the public fancy. She died of a paralytic stroke at Springfield, Missouri, in 1944 and by her own wish was buried without religious ceremony in the family cemetery at Bonniebrook.
Achievements
Rose O'Neill is famous for creation of Kewpeis dolls, which she patented in 1913 and earned more than a million dollars.
Rose O'Neill wrote and illustrated books: The Loves of Edwy (1904), The Lady in the White Veil (1909), The Kewpies and Dottie Darling (1912), The Kewpies: Their Book, Verse and Poetry (1913), The Kewpie Kutouts (1914), The Kewpie Primer (1916) and many others.
O'Neill illustrated: The Lions of the Lord by Harry Leon Wilson (1903), The Boss of Little Arcady by Harry Leon Wilson (1905), The Hickory Limb by Parker Hoysted Fillmore (1910), Our Baby’s Book (1914), A Little Question of Ladies’ Rights by Parker Hoysted Fillmore (1916), Sing a Song of Safety by Irving Caesar (1937).
Rose O'Neill was a member of the Société des Beaux Arts.
Personality
The fairies endowed Rose O'Neill with dazzling gifts. She had wit, beauty, goodness, and an almost bottomless purse. In her prosperity she was almost pathologically generous. She sent money to Charles Caryl Coleman, an elderly and needy American painter whom she had met during her visit to Capri, who gratefully turned over to her his villa there. From 1912 to the early 1920's many protégés enjoyed the hospitality of her Greenwich Village apartment, and almost anyone who called himself an artist could charge a meal to her account at the Hotel Brevoort. In 1922 she bought an eleven-room house near Westport, Connecticut, which she named Carabas Castle after the marquis in the fairy tale "Puss in Boots. " Living there with her mother, her sister Callista, and her brother Clarence ("Clink"), she fed and gave encouragement to dozens of obscure poets, artists, and musicians. Her ability to help the frustrated and incomplete was closely related to her deep understanding of the child mind.
Connections
In 1896, Rose O'Neill was married to Gray Latham, a handsome but indolent Virginian. His high-handed appropriation of her growing earnings helped wreck their marriage, which ended in divorce in 1901. Her second marriage in 1902 - childless like the first - was to Harry Leon Wilson. They were a discordant pair, she ebullient and communicative, he a dour humorist, given to sardonic silences and frequent hangovers; and after their return from two years abroad on the island of Capri and in Paris, they separated in September 1907. Yet in spite of their inability to get on together, there remained much sympathy and affection between them.
