Juliet Wilbor Tompkins

Juliet Wilbor Tompkins (May 13, 1871 – January 29, 1956) was an American writer and editor.

Juliet Wilbor Tompkins was born on May 13, 1871, in Oakland, California, to Sarah (Haight) and Edward Tompkins.[1] She received an AB from Vassar College in 1891.[2]

Tompkins was an associate editor at Munsey's Magazine from 1897 to 1901.[3] Around 1898, Frank Munsey appointed her the editor of Puritan, another of his magazines; she remained editor until 1901.[1] She also edited a magazine called The Wave.[4]

She published 14 novels and many short stories.[3] According to Richard Ohmann, Tompkins's story "On the Way North", published in Munsey's in 1895, exemplifies the perspective of the professional–managerial class.[5] A review in the Brooklyn Eagle called the novel Open House (1909), about a psychiatrist who runs a facility to which he invites "derelicts", a "very laughable, perverse book".[6] The film A Girl Named Mary (1919) was based on Tompkins's 1918 novel of the same name.[7]

Tompkins married Emery Pottle either in 1897[1] or on November 22, 1904,[8] and filed for divorce on March 24, 1905.[8] She died on January 29, 1956, in New York City.[1]

Publications
  • Dr. Ellen (1908)[9]
  • Open House (1909)[10]
  • Mothers and Fathers (1910)[10]
  • The Top of the Morning (1910)[10]
  • Pleasures and Palaces: Being the Home-Making Adventures of Marie Rose (1912)[10]
  • Ever After (1913)[10]
  • Diantha (1915)[9]
  • The Seed of the Righteous (1916)[10]
  • At the Sign of the Oldest House (1917)[9]
  • A Girl Named Mary (1918)[10]
  • The Starting (1919)[10]
  • Joanna Builds a Nest (1920)[10]
  • A Line a Day (1923)[10]
  • The Millionaire (1930)[9]

References
  1. Anderson, H. Allen (1999). "Tompkins, Juliet Wilbor". In Garraty, John A.; Carnes, Mark C. (eds.). American National Biography. Vol. 21. American Council of Learned Societies; Oxford University Press. pp. 739–740. doi:10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1601654. ISBN 0-19-520635-5. OCLC 39182280.
  2. Leonard, John W. (1914). Woman's Who's Who of America. American Commonwealth Company. p. 657. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  3. Honey, Maureen, ed. (1992). Breaking the Ties that Bind: Popular Stories of the New Woman, 1915–1930. University of Oklahoma Press. p. 339. ISBN 0-8061-2467-9. OCLC 26131209.
  4. "Among the New Books". Chicago Tribune. March 21, 1908. p. 9 – via newspapers.com.
  5. Ohmann, Richard (1988). "History and Literary History: The Case of Mass Culture". Poetics Today. 9 (2): 357–375. doi:10.2307/1772694. JSTOR 1772694.
  6. "Open House". Brooklyn Eagle. February 20, 1909. p. 8 – via newspapers.com.
  7. "Marguerite Clark Cast as 'A Girl Named Mary' in Feature at Imperial". Ottawa Citizen. February 14, 1920. p. 14 – via newspapers.com.
  8. "Authoress Is to Divorce Author". San Francisco Examiner. March 27, 1905. p. 2 – via newspapers.com.
  9. Burke, William Jeremiah; Howe, Will David (1972). American Authors and Books, 1640 to the Present Day (3d ed.). Crown Publishing Group. p. 644. ISBN 0-517-50139-2. OCLC 523487.
  10. Smith, Geoffrey D. (1997). American Fiction, 1901–1925: A Bibliography. Cambridge University Press. pp. 670–671. ISBN 0-521-43469-6. OCLC 37661469.


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