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Juliet Wilbor Tompkins

Juliet Wilbor Tompkins

American writer and magazine editor (1871–1956)

Juliet Wilbor Tompkins (May 13, 1871 – January 29, 1956) was an American writer and editor.

Juliet Wilbor Tompkins was born on May 13, 1871, in Oakland, California, to Sarah (Haight) and Edward Tompkins.[1] She received an AB from Vassar College in 1891.[2]

Tompkins was an associate editor at Munsey's Magazine from 1897 to 1901.[3] Around 1898, Frank Munsey appointed her the editor of Puritan, another of his magazines; she remained editor until 1901.[1] She also edited a magazine called The Wave.[4]

She published 14 novels and many short stories.[3] According to Richard Ohmann, Tompkins's story "On the Way North", published in Munsey's in 1895, exemplifies the perspective of the professional–managerial class.[5] A review in the Brooklyn Eagle called the novel Open House (1909), about a psychiatrist who runs a facility to which he invites "derelicts", a "very laughable, perverse book".[6] The film A Girl Named Mary (1919) was based on Tompkins's 1918 novel of the same name.[7]

Tompkins married Emery Pottle either in 1897[1] or on November 22, 1904,[8] and filed for divorce on March 24, 1905.[8] She died on January 29, 1956, in New York City.[1]

Publications

  • Dr. Ellen (1908)[9]
  • Open House (1909)[10]
  • Mothers and Fathers (1910)[10]
  • The Top of the Morning (1910)[10]
  • Pleasures and Palaces: Being the Home-Making Adventures of Marie Rose (1912)[10]
  • Ever After (1913)[10]
  • Diantha (1915)[9]
  • The Seed of the Righteous (1916)[10]
  • At the Sign of the Oldest House (1917)[9]
  • A Girl Named Mary (1918)[10]
  • The Starting (1919)[10]
  • Joanna Builds a Nest (1920)[10]
  • A Line a Day (1923)[10]
  • The Millionaire (1930)[9]

References

  1. [1]
    Anderson, H. Allen (1999). "Tompkins, Juliet Wilbor". In Garraty, John A.; Carnes, Mark C. (eds.). American National Biography. Vol. 21. American Council of Learned Societies; Oxford University Press. pp. 739–740. doi:10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1601654. ISBN 0-19-520635-5. OCLC 39182280.
  2. [2]
    Leonard, John W. (1914). Woman's Who's Who of America. American Commonwealth Company. p. 657. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  3. [3]
    Honey, Maureen, ed. (1992). Breaking the Ties that Bind: Popular Stories of the New Woman, 1915–1930. University of Oklahoma Press. p. 339. ISBN 0-8061-2467-9. OCLC 26131209.
  4. [4]
    "Among the New Books". Chicago Tribune. March 21, 1908. p. 9 – via newspapers.com.
  5. [5]
    Ohmann, Richard (1988). "History and Literary History: The Case of Mass Culture". Poetics Today. 9 (2): 357–375. doi:10.2307/1772694. JSTOR 1772694.
  6. [6]
    "Open House". Brooklyn Eagle. February 20, 1909. p. 8 – via newspapers.com.
  7. [7]
    "Marguerite Clark Cast as 'A Girl Named Mary' in Feature at Imperial". Ottawa Citizen. February 14, 1920. p. 14 – via newspapers.com.
  8. [8]
    "Authoress Is to Divorce Author". San Francisco Examiner. March 27, 1905. p. 2 – via newspapers.com.
  9. [9]
    Burke, William Jeremiah; Howe, Will David (1972). American Authors and Books, 1640 to the Present Day (3d ed.). Crown Publishing Group. p. 644. ISBN 0-517-50139-2. OCLC 523487.
  10. [10]
    Smith, Geoffrey D. (1997). American Fiction, 1901–1925: A Bibliography. Cambridge University Press. pp. 670–671. ISBN 0-521-43469-6. OCLC 37661469.


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