Rose Terry Cooke
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Works by Rose Terry Cooke
(1827-1892)
| 1881 | Somebody's Neighbors. The first collection by the Connecticut short story writer realistically depicts New England mill and village life. Other volumes, Root-Bound (1885) and The Sphinx's Children and Other People's (1886), would follow. She is considered one of the earliest of the New England local colorists commended by William Dean Howells for writing realistic stories "when truth in art was considered a minor virtue if not a sordid detail." |
| 1886 | The Sphinx's Children and Other People's. Some of the Connecticut local colorist's finest stories are collected in this volume, including "Too Late," "Alicedama Sparks," and "Some Account of Thomas Tucker," which Sarah Orne Jewett singles out for particular praise as typifying Cooke's artistry in using regional details to tell universal human stories. |
| 1891 | Huckleberries Gathered from New England Hills. Cooke's final collection of regional stories includes "Clary's Trial," "Odd Miss Todd," and "How Celia Changed Her Mind." |
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Rose Terry Cooke
Rose Terry Cooke (née Terry) (February 17, 1827 – July 18, 1892) was an American writer born in West Hartford, Connecticut to Henry Wadsworth Terry and Anne Wright Hurlbut.
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Early life
She went to the Hartford Female Seminary where "For her own entertainment she wrote poems and dramas for her friends".[1] She graduated from the seminary at age sixteen and that same year became a member of the Congregational Church and began teaching at a Presbyterian church in Burlington, New Jersey and worked as a governess for the family of clergyman William Van Rensselaer.
Literary work
Terry's first published poem appeared in the New York Daily Tribune in 1851 and received high praise[1] from the editor Charles A. Dana. In 1860 she published a volume of poems, and in 1888 she published more verse with her Complete Poems. It was after her marriage in 1873 to Rollin H. Cooke that she became best known for her fresh and humorous stories. Her chief volumes of fiction dealing mainly with New England country life were Happy Dodd: or, She Hath Done What She Could (1878), Somebody's Neighbors (1881), Root-bound and Other Sketches (1885), The Sphinx's Children and Other People's (1886), No: A Story for Boys.(1886), Steadfast (1889) and Huckleberries Gathered From the New England Hills (1891). She died at Pittsfield, Massachusetts on July 18, 1892.[2]
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References
- Ehrlich, Eugene and Gorton Carruth. The Oxford Illustrated Literary Guide to the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982: 54. ISBN 0-19-503186-5
- Kennedy, George A, Sallathiel Bump: A Reader's Companion to the Writings of Rose Terry Cooke. Written and published by George A Kennedy, PO Box 271880,Fort Collins CO 80527.
- Lintner, Sylvia Chace "Cooke, Rose Terry" Notable American Women. Vol. 1, 4th ed., The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1975.
- "Cooke, Rose (Terry)." American Authors 1600 – 1900. H. W. Wilson Company, NY 1938.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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