Edith Summers Kelley

Edith Summers Kelley (born April 28, 1884 in Toronto , Canada , † June 9, 1956 in Los Gatos , California ) was a Canadian writer .

Life

Edith Summers was born to Scottish immigrants in Toronto, Canada. She graduated from the University of Toronto , where she graduated with honors in languages. She then moved to Greenwich Village , New York City , where she met the writer Upton Sinclair , who offered her a job in his Helicon Home Colony . She met the writer Sinclair Lewis , to whom she was engaged for two years. However, in 1908 she married the writer and journalist Allan Eugene Updegraff . After the colony burned down, she worked as a teacher in an evening school to help finance her two children, whom she had with Updegraff. The marriage failed around 1913, and Summers later married Fred Kelley, with whom they also had a child and traveled around the country.

Her first novel Weeds was published in 1923 while living with Kelley on a farm in Scott County , Kentucky . Although it received good reviews, it had no financial success. Her second novel, The Devil's Hand , wasn't published until 18 years after her death in 1974.

Works

1923: Weeds
1974: The Devil's Hand

Web links

Literature by and about Edith Summers Kelley in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ KELLEY, Edith Summers , encyclopedia.com
^ Sandra Ballard: Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia . UP of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 2003, ISBN 978-0-8131-9066-2 , pp. 319-20.
↑ Elaine Showalter : A jury of her peers: American women writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx . Random House, 2009, ISBN 978-1-4000-4123-7 , pp. 370-71.

personal data
SURNAME	Kelley, Edith Summers
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Summers, Edith (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Canadian writer
DATE OF BIRTH	April 28, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH	Toronto , Canada
DATE OF DEATH	June 9, 1956
Place of death	Los Gatos , California, United States

[1] KELLEY, Edith Summers , encyclopedia.com

[here-2] Sandra Ballard: Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia . UP of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 2003, ISBN 978-0-8131-9066-2 , pp. 319-20.

[showalter-3] Elaine Showalter : A jury of her peers: American women writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx . Random House, 2009, ISBN 978-1-4000-4123-7 , pp. 370-71.