Lucia Runkle

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Lucia Isabella Runkle (née Gilbert; August 20, 1844 - 1922), was an editorial writer and contributor to the New York Tribune and Harper's.[1] She was one of the first women editorialists at a major American newspaper.[2]

Biography[]

Runkle was born in North Brookfield, Massachusetts and educated in Fall River and Worcester, Massachusetts. She moved to New York City and for many years she was an editorial writer and contributor to the New-York Tribune, in which she published a series of articles on cooking, treated from an artistic standpoint. She also wrote frequently for other journals and for magazines[3] including the Christian Union, later The Outlook. For ten years Runkle was the literary adviser of Harper & Brothers, her work including French and German manuscripts and books, as well as English. In 1893, she undertook, with Charles Dudley Warner and others, the enormous labor which is represented in the thirty volumes of .[4][5]

She was quoted in support of The Woman's Advocate publication.[6] She corresponded with Helen Hunt Jackson.[7]

Personal lilfe[]

In 1862 she married a Mr. Calhoun. Her second marriage, in 1869, was to Cornelius Runkle, a customs official and lawyer for the New-York Tribune.[2][3] Their daughter Bertha Runkle authored The Helmet of Navarre and four other novels.[8]

Work[]

  • Modern Women and What is Said of Them: A Reprint of a Series of Articles in the Saturday Review, by E. Lynn Linton, J. S. Redfield, New York (1868), contributor[9]
  • Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern, New York, R. S. Peale and J. A. Hill, (c1896-97), contributor

References[]

  1. ^ Jackson, Helen Hunt (October 15, 2015). The Indian Reform Letters of Helen Hunt Jackson, 1879–1885. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 9780806153735 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ a b Temple, Wayne C. (February 1, 2019). Lincoln's Confidant: The Life of Noah Brooks. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252050916 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ a b Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography, John Daniel Runkle entry https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Appletons%27_Cyclop%C3%A6dia_of_American_Biography/Runkle,_John_Daniel
  4. ^ Sunset, Volume 14 (1905)
  5. ^ Warner et al. (1897) Library of the World's Best Literature
  6. ^ "EWWRP : Women's Advocacy Collection : The Woman's Advocate, Volume 1 : Letters 0". womenwriters.digitalscholarship.emory.edu.
  7. ^ Grunwald, Lisa; Adler, Stephen J. (January 21, 2009). Women's Letters: America from the Revolutionary War to the Present. Random House Publishing Group. ISBN 9780307493330 – via Google Books.
  8. ^ Logan, Mrs John A. (July 13, 1912). "The Part Taken by Women in American History". Perry-Nalle Publishing Company – via Google Books.
  9. ^ "Lucia Gilbert Calhoun | The Online Books Page". onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu.
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