Английская Википедия:Alice MacGowan

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Unreliable sources Шаблон:Use mdy dates Шаблон:Infobox writer Alice L. MacGowan (December 10, 1858 – March 10, 1947) was an American writer. She and her sister Grace MacGowan Cooke wrote over 30 novels, about a hundred short stories, and some poetry. Alice produced several best sellers, including Two by Two, that was serialized in the Saturday Evening Post and was published in 1922 in New York under the title The Million Dollar Suitcase.[1]

Early years

She was born in Perrysburg, Ohio, the daughter of John Encil MacGowan and Malvina Marie Johnson.[2] The family moved to Chattanooga, Tennessee,[3] where her sister Grace was born.[4] Alice was educated in public schools in addition to being home schooled by her father,[2] a Colonel with the Union Army during the American Civil War and editor of the Chattanooga Times from 1872–1903.[5][2]

Grace married William Benjamin Cooke on February 16, 1887 in Hamilton, Tennessee. They had two children, Helen M. and Katharine (or "Kit").[6] Harry Leon Wilson married Helen Cooke in 1912. They had two children and divorced in 1927.[7]

Alice was living with her sister at Upton Sinclair's Helicon Home Colony in 1907 when it burned to the ground. Both were taken to Englewood Hospital to recover.[8]

Career

Alice became a writer of short stories and novels, while collaborating with her sister Grace on most of her works.[9] Together they would write over 30 novels, about a hundred short stories, and some poetry.[5] The subject matter of their writings included Westerns, mysteries, historical novels, and social novels.

[10] Briefly married to a much older man,[10] Alice lived in Texas working as a governess.[3]

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In December 1908, the MacGowan sisters, with Helen and Katherine, and their mother moved to the semi-remote colony of artists and literati at Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, which included such influential figures as Mary Hunter Austin, Jack London, Upton Sinclair, George Sterling, Francis McComas, Xavier Martinez, Sinclair Lewis, and Nora May French.[1]

In 1908, the sisters moved into a large, Tudor-style two-story house on 13th Avenue, the second house northeast of San Antonio Avenue, built in 1905 by architect Eugenia Maybury, one of Carmel's first female architects.[12] The house is listed on the Carmel Inventory Of Historic Resources.[13]

The sisters apparently avoided the more lascivious activities of this Bohemian enclave because a satirical commentator from the Los Angeles Times placed Alice and Grace in the "social faction" known as the "Eminently Respectables".[14] As if to reinforce this image the Times described a 1911 Carmel Christmas party where Jack London, the MacGowan sisters, and the “diminutive dog” Fluffy Ruffles sat at the same table eating lady fingers.[15] Alice actively supported various local charities as well as the Carmel Arts and Crafts Club, and fought the removal of village trees, the paving of the quaint gravel streets and all “encroachments ... of an advancing civilization.”[1]

The two sisters stopped writing together around 1910.[3] Alice collaborated with Garnet Holme on a dramatization of her novel The Sword in the Mountains, titled Chattanooga.[10] Grace wrote the children's book, Son Riley Rabbit and Little Girl (1908) with her daughter Kit posing for the book's illustrations. She wrote The Power and the Glory (1910), a novel set in Appalachia.[12]

In May 1914, just two months before the start of the highly publicized William Merritt Chase summer school of art in Carmel, the San Francisco press and the New York Times reported that Alice had been intentionally poisoned at her home.[16][17] The respected Carmel artist Jennie V. Cannon recounted that there had been several previous attempts to murder Alice, who “was popular with everybody.”[1] The perpetrators were never caught.

Carmel proved to be a writer's paradise and Alice produced several best sellers. She co-authored five detective stories with the one-time mayor of Carmel, Perry Newberry (see Bibliography below). Their runaway success, “Two by Two”, was serialized in the Saturday Evening Post and was published in 1922 by Stokes in New York under the title “The Million Dollar Suitcase.”[1][18] In April 1922 she lectured with Newberry on the "thriller in literature" at Paul Elder's Gallery in San Francisco.[19]

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Alice and Grace resumed collaboration with The Straight Road (1917) and The Trail of the Little Wagon (1928).[10][20] But the sisters novels became less popular during the Great Depression, and in 1935 they sold their house in Carmel and moved to Los Gatos, California with Grace's younger daughter, Katherine.[21]

Death

Alice died in Los Gatos on March 10, 1947. She was a Los Gatos resident for ten years. Funeral services were held from the Melvin Mortuary and at St. Mary's Catholic Church on Bean avenue, where a requiem low mass was celebrated. She was buried at the Los Gatos Cemetery.[22][10][21]

Selected works

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  • The Last Word[20] (1903)
  • Return[2]
  • Judith of the Cumberlands[20] (1908)
  • Wiving of Lance Cleaverage[20] (1909)
  • The Sword in the Mountains[20] (1910)
  • The Million-dollar Suitcase[20] (1922) with Perry Newberry
  • A Girl of the Plains Country (1924)
  • The Mystery Woman[20] (1924) with Perry Newberry
  • Shaken Down[20] (1925) with Perry Newberry
  • The Seventh Passenger (1926)
  • Who Is This Man? (1927) with Perry Newberry

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References

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External links

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  1. ↑ 1,0 1,1 1,2 1,3 1,4 Шаблон:Cite book A facsimile of the entire text of Vol. 1 is posted on the Traditional Fine Arts Organization website (http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/10aa/10aa557.htm Шаблон:Webarchive).
  2. ↑ 2,0 2,1 2,2 2,3 Ошибка цитирования Неверный тег <ref>; для сносок Leonard1914 не указан текст
  3. ↑ 3,0 3,1 3,2 Ошибка цитирования Неверный тег <ref>; для сносок Baym2011 не указан текст
  4. ↑ Ошибка цитирования Неверный тег <ref>; для сносок TMS1910 не указан текст
  5. ↑ 5,0 5,1 Ошибка цитирования Неверный тег <ref>; для сносок Hartzell2005 не указан текст
  6. ↑ Шаблон:Cite news
  7. ↑ Шаблон:Cite news
  8. ↑ Ошибка цитирования Неверный тег <ref>; для сносок NYT1907 не указан текст
  9. ↑ Ошибка цитирования Неверный тег <ref>; для сносок AldermanHarrisKent1910 не указан текст
  10. ↑ 10,0 10,1 10,2 10,3 10,4 Ошибка цитирования Неверный тег <ref>; для сносок Dramov2013 не указан текст
  11. ↑ Шаблон:Cite journal
  12. ↑ 12,0 12,1 Шаблон:Cite book
  13. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  14. ↑ Los Angeles Times, 22 May 1910, pp. II-1, 8.
  15. ↑ Los Angeles Times, 7 January 1911, p. I-5.
  16. ↑ San Francisco Examiner, 10 May 1914, pp. 1, 60.
  17. ↑ New York Times, 21 March 1914, p. III-1.
  18. ↑ Carmel Pine Cone, 24 May 1935, p. 8.
  19. ↑ Carmel Pine Cone, 20 April 1922, p. 10.
  20. ↑ 20,0 20,1 20,2 20,3 20,4 20,5 20,6 20,7 Ошибка цитирования Неверный тег <ref>; для сносок Smith1997 не указан текст
  21. ↑ 21,0 21,1 Шаблон:Cite book
  22. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
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