Myra Kelly

Myra Kelly, from a 1907 publication.

Myra Kelly (1875–1910) was an Irish American schoolteacher and author.

Life[]

Kelly was born in Dublin, she came to the United States with her father, a physician who established a practice on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.^[1] She attended the Horace Mann School^[2] and Teachers College, Columbia University, graduating in 1899.^[3]

Kelly taught elementary school at Public School 147 from 1899 to 1901.^[3] She produced three collections of stories based on her experiences as a teacher. Her character Constance Bailey teaches Irish and Russian Jewish immigrant children. A minor theme within her works is the changing character of the neighborhood and the displacement of Irish immigrant families.^[1] After the publishing of her "In Loco Parentis", US President Theodore Roosevelt wrote her a letter of appreciation.^[4]^[5]

Kelly married Allan Macnaughton in 1905.^[2] Prior to her death, she also wrote the romance novels Rosnah and The Golden Season.^[1]

Kelly developed tuberculosis and died on March 30, 1910 in Torquay, England.^[4] She was 35 years old.

Works[]

Little Citizens, The Humours of School Life (1905)
The Isle of Dreams (1907)
Wards of Liberty (1907)
Rosnah (1908)
The Golden Season (1909)
Little Aliens (1910)

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Fanning, Charles (2000). The Irish Voice in America: 250 Years of Irish-American Fiction (2nd ed.). University Press of Kentucky. p. 181. ISBN 978-0-8131-2760-6.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Myra Kelly, Originator. The Book Buyer. 39–40. C. Scribner's Sons. 1914. p. 77.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b The Work of Teachers in America: A Social History Through Stories. Hoboken: Taylor and Francis. 1997. pp. 193–194. ISBN 978-1-135-45934-5.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "Myra Kelly, Writer of Child Life, Dead". The New York Times. April 1, 1910.
^ "Myra Kelly". Americans All: Stories of American Life of To-Day. Library of Alexandria. 2010. ISBN 978-1-4655-2356-3.

External links[]

[Fanning-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Fanning, Charles (2000). The Irish Voice in America: 250 Years of Irish-American Fiction (2nd ed.). University Press of Kentucky. p. 181. ISBN 978-0-8131-2760-6.

[The_Book_Buyer-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b Myra Kelly, Originator. The Book Buyer. 39–40. C. Scribner's Sons. 1914. p. 77.

[The_Work_of_Teachers-3] Jump up to: ^a ^b The Work of Teachers in America: A Social History Through Stories. Hoboken: Taylor and Francis. 1997. pp. 193–194. ISBN 978-1-135-45934-5.

[NYT_obit-4] Jump up to: ^a ^b "Myra Kelly, Writer of Child Life, Dead". The New York Times. April 1, 1910.

[5] "Myra Kelly". Americans All: Stories of American Life of To-Day. Library of Alexandria. 2010. ISBN 978-1-4655-2356-3.

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