Background
Thorpe, Rose Hartwick was born on July 18, 1850 in Mishawaka, Indiana, United States. Daughter of William and Mary Hartwick.
Thorpe, Rose Hartwick was born on July 18, 1850 in Mishawaka, Indiana, United States. Daughter of William and Mary Hartwick.
Graduate High School, Litchfield, Michigan, 1868. Honorary Master of Arts, Hillsdale College, 1883.
Thorpe wrote Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight, while living in Litchfield, Michigan, a small rural town in Hillsdale County. A bell in the center of the town commemorates the poem and Thorpe"s time spent in the town. Litchfield adopted the title of the poem as a symbol, having fire trucks and city website show the symbol of a bell reading "Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight."
In 1904, Thorpe wrote about the White Lady Cave in San Diego-Louisiana Jolla Underwater Park in California.
Visitors inside the cave could see the outline of a lady in the rock formations and local legend claimed a bride was trapped in the cave before her death.
In The White Lady of Louisiana Jolla, Thorpe described: "She is robed in shimmering garments of light, wrapped in a misty veil, and on her head is a wreath like a coronet of orange blossoms.".
Married East. Carson Thorpe, September 11, 1871 (died 1916). Children: Lulo May (Mistress East. Y. Barnes), Lillie Maude (deceased).