Jean Webster
Children
Alice Jane Chandler Webster was born in Fredonia, New York. She was the eldest daughter of Annie and Charles Moffet Luther Webster Webster. Lived his childhood in a very matriarchal and activist, with her grandmother, mother and grandmother all live under the roof. His grandmother worked on issues of temperance and grandmother in racial equality and women's suffrage.
mother Alice was the niece of Mark Twain, and his father was a sales manager Mark Twain, then editor of many books by Charles L. Editorial Webster founded in 1884. Initially the company was successful, and when Alice was five the family moved to a brownstone in New York large, with a house Long Island summer. However, the publisher has experienced difficulties, and growing relationship with Mark Twain broke. In 1888, his father was depressed and said goodbye, and the family moved to Fredonia. Then he committed suicide in 1891 of an overdose.
Alice attended the Fredonia Normal School and graduated in 1894 in painting China. From 1894 to 1896 he attended the Lady Jane Grey School in Binghamton as a border. While there, the school teaches academics, music, art, literature, speech and gestures of about 20 girls. The Lady Jane Grey School inspired many details of the school Just Webster Patty's novel, including the provision school the names of the rooms (Sky Lounge, Hell's Kitchen), uniforms, and timing of girls every day and teachers. He was in school Alice became known under the name John. Since her roommate was also named Alice, the school asked if I could use another name. She chose "John" a variant of his middle name. Jean graduated from school in June 1896 and returned to the Fredonia Normal School for one year in division schools.
college years
In 1897, he entered Vassar College in Webster as a member of the class of 1901. Majoring in English and economics, She took a course on welfare reform, criminal and became interested in social issues. As part of his tour, visited institutions for "delinquent children and the poor. "She has been involved in the settlement College House, which serves poor communities in New York, an interest that would maintain throughout his life. Their Vassar experiences provided material for his books when Patty went to college and Daddy-Long-Legs. Webster began a close friendship with the future poet Adelaide Crapsey that remains his friend to death in 1914 Crapsey.
He has participated in various extracurricular activities Crapsey, including writing, drama and politics. Webster and Crapsey supported the Socialist candidate Eugene V. Debs during the 1900 presidential elections, although women were not allowed to vote. She was a contributor to various stories and Vassar in his second year in English class, he began writing a weekly column of news stories from Vassar and Poughkeepsie The Mail on Sunday. Webster noted that was "a shark in English", but his spelling was very eccentric, and when a teacher asked her spelling horror authority, said, "Webster" a play the dictionary name of the same name.
Webster spent a semester in his third year in Europe, visiting France and the UK, but its primary Italy destination, including visits to Rome, Naples, Venice and Florence. She traveled with two colleagues at Vassar and in Paris met Ethelyn McKinney and Lena Weinstein, also Americans, who would become lifelong friends. While in Italy, Webster, research thesis its economy "pauperism in Italy." She also wrote columns about her travels to Poughkeepsie Sunday Courier, and gathered material for a story, "Villa Gianini," which was published in Miscellaneous Vassar in 1901. Later expanded into a novel, The Princess of wheat. Back at Vassar for his senior year, he was literary editor of the yearbook class, and graduated in June 1901.
Adult years
Back to Fredonia, Webster began writing when Patty went to college, where he describes the lives of contemporary women's college. After some difficulty finding a publisher was published in March 1903 to critical acclaim. Webster began writing short stories that make Much Ado Peter and his mother traveled to Italy for the winter of 19,034 includes a 6-week stay in a convent of Palestrina, when he wrote the princess wheat. It was subsequently published in 1905.
The following years brought another trip to Italy and an eight-month world tour in Egypt, India, Burma, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Hong Kong, China and Japan Ethelyn McKinney, Lena Weinstein and two others, and published in 1907 by Jerry Junior Four pools and mystery in 1908.
Increasing intimacy and secrecy of commitment established between Webster and his brother Ethelyn McKinney, Glenn Ford McKinney. A lawyer who had fought the expectations of his father rich and prosperous. Reflection of a sub-plot of Dear Enemy, was an unhappy marriage with an unstable woman, Annette Reynaud who was frequently hospitalized for manic-depressive. The McKinney had a son, John, who also showed signs mental instability. McKinney responded to these constraints, frequent outbreaks on hunting trips and boating and alcohol abuse. Entered nursing homes several times in succession. The McKinney separated in 1909, but in a time when divorce was rare and difficult to obtain, and have not divorced until 1915. After separation, McKinney continued struggle with alcoholism, but had his addiction under control in the summer 1912, when he traveled to Webster, Ethelyn McKinney and Lena Weinstein Ireland.
During this period, Webster continued to write short stories and began to adapt some of their books for the stage. In 1911, only published Patty, and Webster began writing the novel Daddy-Long-Legs during their stay in an old farm in Tyringham, Massachusetts. The Webster's most famous work was originally published in the Ladies' Home Newspaper and has the story of a girl named Jerusha Abbott, an orphan whose attendance at the School of Women is sponsored by an anonymous benefactor. Besides an introductory chapter, the novel takes the form of letters written by the new style of Judy to his benefactor. It was published in October 1912 at successful people and criticism.
Webster dramatized Daddy-Long-Legs in 1913 and in 1914 spent four months touring with the work, which featured a young Judy Ruth Chatterton. After tryouts in Atlantic City, New York, Syracuse, Rochester, Indianapolis and Chicago, the play premiered at the Gaiety Theatre on Broadway in September 1914 and lasted until May 1915. Then toured the United States. The book and the game became a focus of efforts to work in charity and reform. "Daddy-Long-Legs" dolls were sold to raise funds for the adoption of orphans into families. Webster triumph and success has been overshadowed by his friend from the University of Adelaide Crapsey battle against tuberculosis, and death Crapsey in October 1914. In June 1915 Glenn Ford McKinney got a divorce, and he and Webster were married in a quiet ceremony in September in Washington, Connecticut. They honeymoon Camp McKinney, near Quebec City, Canada, and were visited by former President Theodore Roosevelt, who was invited, saying, "I always wanted to meet Jean Webster. We can create a partition in the cab. "
Back in the U.S., Webster newlyweds shared apartment overlooking Central Park and the farm Tymora McKinney in Dutchess County, New York. In November 1915, Dear Enemy (novel), a sequel to Daddy-Long-Legs, has been published, and was also a bestseller. Also in epistolary form, which chronicles the adventures of a college friend of Judy, who became director of the orphanage where he grew up Judy. Webster became pregnant and, as family tradition, he was warned that her pregnancy could be dangerous. She suffered severe nausea, but in February 1916, he felt better and was returned to its multiple activities: social events, visits to prisons and meetings on the reform of the orphanage and women's suffrage. She also started a book and the game is played Sri Lanka. His friends said they had never seen her happier.
Death
Jean Webster joined the Sloan Hospital for Women in New York on the afternoon of June 10, 1916. Glenn McKinney recalled its twenty-fifth meeting at Princeton University, arrived 90 minutes before Webster gave birth to 22 hours and 30 to a six-pound-and-fourth-. Everything was fine at first, but John Webster fell ill and died of fever childbirth at 7:30 June 11, 1916. His daughter was named Juan (Johnny) in his honor.
Topics
John Webster was active in political and social life, and often include issues of interest in his books.
Women's issues
Jean Webster supported the suffrage women and education for women. He has participated in marches for women's suffrage, and who benefited from his teaching at Vassar, she was active with the university. His novels also promoted the idea of education for women, and its main characters explicitly supported women's suffrage.
Eugenics and heritage
The eugenics movement was a hot topic when John Webster wrote his novels. In particular, Richard L. Dugdale 's 1877 book on the Juke family and Henry Goddard in 1912 the family study were widely disseminated Kallikak at that time. Dear Enemy Webster summarizes the book mentions and approval, to some extent, although its star, Sally McBride Finally he says, not "believe that there is something in heredity", provided children are raised in a stimulating environment. However, the idea of eugenics as a "Scientific truth'enerally accepted by the intellectuals of the timeo come up through the novel.
Institutional reform
From his college years, Webster has been involved in reform movements, and a member of the State Charities Aid Association, including orphanages to visit, raising funds for children charge and arrange adoptions. Dear enemy in a model called the Pleasantville Cottage School, an orphanage-type boat that Webster had visited.
Bibliography
When Patty went to college (1903)
Wheat Princess (1905)
Jerry Junior (1907)
Four pools Mystery (1908)
Much Ado About Peter (1909)
Just Patty (1911)
Faucheux (1912)
Dear Enemy (novel) (1915)
Biography
Simpson, Alan and Mary Connor Ralph Simpson (1984). Jean Webster: Storyteller. Poughkeepsie: Associate Tymora. Library of Congress catalog number 8450869.
References
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP ^ Simpson, Alan Ralph Simpson and Mary Connor (1984). Jean Webster: Storyteller. Poughkeepsie: Tymora partner. Library of Congress catalog number 8450869 B0006EFCTE.
^ John Webster Abc (1940). Daddy-Long-Legs. New York, NY: Grosset & Dunlap. p. "Introduction: John Webster", pages 1119. ASIN: B000GQOF3G.
^ Roosevelt, Theodore (1916). A lover of books, accommodation at the Open. New York: Charles Scribner's son. http://www.bartleby.com/57/11.html.
Abc ^ Keely, Karen (September 2004), "Teaching children Eugenics: The Legacy and the reform of Daddy Long-Legs Jean Webster and enemy of mine," The Lion and the Unicorn 28 (3): 363,389, doi: 10.1353/uni.2004.0032
External Links
Sources
Wikisource has original works written by or about: John Webster
Works by John Webster Project Gutenberg
Jean Webster Works Internet Archive
Other
Alkalay-Gut, Karen (July 6, 2005). "Jean Webster." http://karenalkalay-gut.com/web.html. Retrieved 14/01/2007.
"Jean Webster." Vassar Encyclopedia. 2005. http://vcencyclopedia.vassar.edu/index.php/Jean_Webster. Retrieved on 14/01/2007.
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