Annie Eliot Trumbull

Not to be confused with Annie Trumbull Slosson.
Annie Eliot Trumbull
Born(1857-03-02)March 2, 1857
Hartford, Connecticut
DiedDecember 22, 1949(1949-12-22) (aged 92)
Hartford, Connecticut
Pen nameAnnie Eliot
OccupationAuthor
Relatives

Annie Eliot Trumbull (1857–1949) was an American author of novels, short stories, and plays, associated with Hartford, Connecticut's "Golden Age".

Life and career

A Christmas Accident, 1912

Annie Eliot Trumbull was born on March 2, 1857, in Hartford, Connecticut,[3] to Sarah A. (Robinson) and James Hammond Trumbull,[4] a noted philologist, historian, state librarian, and Connecticut Secretary of State.[3] She graduated from the Hartford public high school in 1876.[5]

Trumbull's works include seven novels, two plays, and short stories for The Atlantic, Lippincott's, New England Magazine, The Outlook, and Scribner's.[3] Her first story and novel were published in 1881 and 1889, respectively, and her plays were written for the Saturday Morning Club before receiving wider distribution.[2] Trumbull's fiction was among the first published by A. S. Barnes and Company.[6] She was the Hartford Courant's literary editor[7] and a close friend of its editor.[3] She wrote an article that historically established the first witchcraft-related execution in New England, that of Alse Young.[8] Trumbull was associated with authors of Hartford's literary "Golden Age", including Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner.[3] As a friend and mentee of Twain,[9] she wrote about her time with him[3] and later helped to preserve his mansion.[9] The Edison Film Company created A Christmas Accident, a silent short film based on Trumbull's story, in 1912.[10][11]

She also traveled internationally and served in several civic posts in Connecticut, including the Town and Country Club, the Mark Twain Library and Memorial Commission, the Hartford Public Library.[3] She also campaigned for women's suffrage. As a figure in Hartford, she was known to play tennis in her front yard court, to have made archery fashionable, to spend summers in her Castine, Maine, home, and winters traveling elsewhere.[2] Trumbull died on December 22, 1949,[2] at her family's homestead.[10]

Selected bibliography

References

  1. ^ Adams, Oscar Fay (1904). A Dictionary of American Authors. Houghton Mifflin. p. 571.
  2. ^ a b c d "Death Comes to Author at Age of 92: Miss Trumbull's Life Linked with Hartford's Literary Golden Age Funeral Saturday". The Hartford Courant. December 23, 1949. ProQuest 561313925 – via ProQuest.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h "Annie E. Trumbull, Author, Dies at 92; Hartford Poet and Playwright Was Associate of Mark Twain in City's 'Golden Age'". The New York Times. December 24, 1949. ISSN 0362-4331.
  4. ^ "James Hammond Trumbull." Dictionary of American Biography. Charles Scribner's Sons. 1936. Gale BT2310001825.
  5. ^ a b c "TRUMBULL, Annie Eliot." Marquis Who Was Who in America 1607–1984.
  6. ^ a b c d e "A. S. Barnes and Company." American Literary Publishing Houses, 1638-1899, edited by Peter Dzwonkoski, vol. 49, Gale, 1986, pp. 40–42. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 49. Gale JXDEWK007341823.
  7. ^ Leonard, John William (1915). Woman's Who's Who of America. The American Commonwealth Co. p. 825.
  8. ^ Ross, Richard S. III (2017). Before Salem: Witch Hunting in the Connecticut River Valley, 1647–1663. McFarland. p. 104. ISBN 978-1-4766-2779-3.
  9. ^ a b Driscoll, Kerry (2018). "Twain's Eternal 'Persistent Beggar'". Mark Twain Circular. 32 (1): 1–2. ISSN 1042-5357. EBSCOhost 137804382.
  10. ^ a b Ifkovic, Edward (2004). The Life and Work of Writer Annie Trumbull Slosson: A Connecticut Local Colorist. Edwin Mellen Press. p. 442. ISBN 978-0-7734-6396-7.
  11. ^ "A Christmas Accident". The Edison Kinetogram. 7 (9): 15. December 1, 1912.
  12. ^ a b Burke, William Jeremiah; Howe, Will David (1967). American Authors and Books, 1640 to the Present Day. Crown Publishers. p. 751.
  13. ^ "Newest of Spring Novels". The New York Times. April 9, 1893. p. 19. ISSN 0362-4331.
  14. ^ "Recent Novels". The Nation. 69 (1779): 95–97. August 3, 1899. ISSN 0027-8378. EBSCOhost 13927907.
  15. ^ "Stories". Congregationalist. Vol. 84, no. 30. July 27, 1899. p. 122. ProQuest 124196263.
  16. ^ "Rev. of Life's Common Way". The New York Times. June 13, 1903. p. 407. ISSN 0362-4331.
  17. ^ "Miss Trumbull's New Novel". The Hartford Courant. May 2, 1903. p. 8. ProQuest 555145786.