Background
Babcock, Winnifred Eaton was born in 1879 in Nagasaki, Japan. Daughter of Edward and Grace (Trepesis) Eatoa.
Babcock, Winnifred Eaton was born in 1879 in Nagasaki, Japan. Daughter of Edward and Grace (Trepesis) Eatoa.
Educated Montreal, Canada, and course in English, Columbia.
Writer short stories for leading magazines from 1893. First story, “A Poor Devil,” appeared as serial in Metropolitan Magazine, Montreal. Went to West Indies, 1895, and worked as general writer and reporter on Jamaica News Letter.
First Japanese stories and a serial, “The Old Jinrikisha,” appeared in Conkey’s Magazine, Chicago, 1895.
Also contributor serials or short stones to Woman’s Home Companion, Good Housekeeping, The Electric, Harper’s, Century, Ladies’ Home Journal, Munsey’s, Frank Leslie’s, Saturday Evening Post, et cetera Author: Mission Nume of Japan, 1899.
A Japanese Night ingale, 1901. Wooing of Wistaria, 1902.
Heart of Hyacinth, 1903.
Daughters of Nijo, 1904. Love of Azalea, 1904. A Japanese Blossom, 1906.
Diary of Delia, 1908.
Tama, 1910; The Honorable Mission Moonlight, 1912. Chinese-Japanese Cook Book (with Sara Bosse), 1914.
A dramatic version of A Japanese Nightingale was produced at Daly’s Theatre, New York, with Margaret Illington in the leading role.*†.
Married B. West. Babcock, July 16, 1901.