Carrie Renfrew
Carolyn "Carrie" Renfrew (c. 1858 – July 6, 1948) was a well-regarded American author from Hastings, Nebraska.
Renfrew was born in Marseilles, Illinois about 1858 to Silvester and Mercy Clark Renfrew, and moved to Nebraska with her family as a child. She began contributing to publications including the Chicago Inter Ocean in 1885.[1] Her works include Songs of Hope (book of poems 1923); The Last of the Strozzi and The Lure (poetic plays 1923), Footprints Across the Prairie (novel, 1930), My Garden (poem collection, 1933), and John Golding's Vision (1938).[2][3][4]
Though not broadly known, Renfrew was one of the most prominent persons from Hastings, being listed as a resident of the town in the 1930s Federal Writers' Project volume on Nebraska,[5] and being the subject of biographical entries in the 1932 volume Nebraskana, and the 1890s American Women compilation, to which she contributed entries on Nebraska citizens.[1]
Renfrew died in Hastings on July 6, 1948, survived by her brother Herman and sister Jennie Babcock.[6]
Bibliography[]
- Songs of Hope (1923, poetry)
- The Last of the Strozzi and The Lure (1923, two plays in one volume)
- Footprints Across the Prairie (Burton Publishing, 1930, first novel)[7]
- My Garden (1933, poetry)
- John Golding's Vision (1938, novel)
- Plays: A Collection of Six Poetic Dramas (Burton Publishing, 1943)
References[]
- ^ a b American women: fifteen hundred biographies with over 1,400 portraits, p. 604 (1897)
- ^ Nebraskana, p. 997 (1932)
- ^ Carrie Renfrew, The Magazine of Poetry, Vol. II, No. 2, p. 198 (April 1890)
- ^ (15 January 1939). More or Less Personal, Lincoln Sunday Journal and Star, Section D, p. 4, col. 3 (paragraph on release of new novel)
- ^ Nebraska: A Guide to the Cornhusker State, p. 169 (1939)
- ^ (7 July 1948). Carolyn Renfrew, State Writer, Dies. Lincoln Evening Journal, p. 1, col. 2
- ^ (5 July 1930). A First Novel Treats of Nebraska Settlers, Kansas City Star, p. 4, col. 4
- 1858 births
- 1948 deaths
- 19th-century American women writers
- 19th-century American writers
- 20th-century American women writers
- 20th-century American writers
- People from Hastings, Nebraska