Emily Huntington Miller

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Emily Huntington Miller (born October 22, 1833 in Brooklyn , Connecticut , † November 2, 1913 in St. Paul , Minnesota ) was an American author, educator and university teacher.

Emily Huntington Miller
Portrait of Emily Huntington Miller

Life

Miller was born in Brooklyn, Connecticut on October 22, 1833 , the daughter of Methodist Pastor Thomas Huntington and the granddaughter of General Jedediah Huntington . In 1857 she graduated from Oberlin College in Ohio . In 1859 or 1860 she married John E. Miller; The marriage resulted in three sons, their only daughter died in childhood. The couple initially lived in Evanston , Illinois, but later moved to St. Paul, Minnesota, where John E. Miller died in 1882. After the death of her husband, she was heavily involved in (Christian) education and died there on November 2, 1913.

job

Huntington Miller's talent for writing literary works was already noticed in school. Even as a young girl she published stories and sketches, which attracted her attention. She regularly wrote short stories, drawings, multi-part continued stories and numerous articles for magazines and newspapers. Huntington Miller wrote for various periodicals, including a. the Chicago Tribune and the Cleaveland Daily Leader. Her contributions in the "Little Corporal", a newspaper for young boys and girls which appeared from 1865 to 1974/75 and which was merged with the children's magazine "St. Nicholas", also known as "St. Nick", found particular recognition. Miller was co-founder and chief editor of the same monthly children's magazine "St. Nicholas", which was founded in 1973 and in which, among other things, Mark Twain's stories were published. Together with her husband John E. Miller, she edited "The Little Corporal", for which she also wrote. She was also co-editor of "The Ladie's Home Journal".

In addition to articles for various magazines and newspapers, Miller also worked as an author of numerous books, including a. The Royal Road to Fortune (1869), Hang Up the Baby's Stocking (1870). The Parish of Fair Haven (1876), What Tommy Did (1876), The Bears' Den (1877) or "Captain Fritz: his friends and adventures (1877) .

Miller also worked in education, inspired by her husband, who was first principal in Granville, Illinois, and later professor of Greek and Latin at Northwestern College . For 10 years she herself was dean at Northwestern University, where she was elected president of the "Women College" after the death of her husband. She was also a strong advocate of the abstinence movement. In 1974 she was part of the committee that founded the National Women's Temperance Union, later the Women's Christian Temperance Union or WCTU.

Works (selection)

Books

  • Tommy Bancroft's adventures , John B. Alden, New York 1889, OCLC 9579422
  • A summer picture
  • An offering of thanks
  • What happened on a Christmas eve , Hunt & Eaton, New York 1888, OCLC 70046226
  • Captain Fritz: his friends and adventures , EP Dutton & Co., New York 1877 OCLC 1136286154
  • The little lad of Bethlehem town , Paul Elder & Co., San Francisco 1911, Reprint: ISBN 978-0526459179
  • Thorn-apples , Phillips & Hunt, New York 1887, OCLC 6509485
  • Songs from the nest , Kindergarten Literature, Chicago 1894, OCLC 228696508
  • From Avalon, and other poems , AC McClurg & Co., Chicago 1896, Reprint: ISBN 978-3744714297

Songs / poems

  • My good for nothing
  • Jolly Old Saint Nicholas
  • The Bluebird's Song
  • More than 100 poems by Huntington Miller were set to music as church chants or hymns

Web links

Commons : Emily Huntington Miller  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mr. Ed: Emily Huntington Miller. In: Find a Grave. Retrieved December 16, 2019 .
  2. ^ A b Mrs. Huntington-Miller. In: The New York Times. The New York Times, November 5, 1913, accessed December 16, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b Frances E. Willard: Woman and Temperance; or, The Work and Workers a of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union . Park Publishing Co, Hartfort, Connecticut 1883 ( harvard.edu ).
  4. ↑ Emily Huntington Miller. In: Blue Letter Bible. Retrieved December 22, 2019 .
  5. ^ Carol Mattingly: Well-Tempered Women: Nineteenth-Century Temperance Rhetoric . Ed .: Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. 1998, p. 63 .
  6. ↑ a b c Frances Elizabeth Willard, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore: A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life . Moulton, Harvard 1893, pp. 505 .
  7. ↑ Chicago Tribune. Retrieved December 23, 2019 .
  8. ^ Cleaveland Daily Leader. Retrieved December 23, 2019 .
  9. ^ A b c d Frank Luther Mott: A History of American Magazines, 1865-1885 . Ed .: Harvard University Press. Harvard University Press, 1938, ISBN 978-0-674-39552-7 , pp. 175 .
  10. ↑ Juvenilia. Retrieved December 23, 2019 .
  11. ↑ A Woman of the Century. Retrieved December 23, 2019 .
  12. ^ Spencer-Wood, Suzanne M .: Historical and archaeological perspectives on gender transformations: from private to public . Springer Science & Business Media, 2012, New York, NY 2013, ISBN 978-1-4614-4863-1 , pp. 234 ( google.at [accessed on January 12, 2020]).
  13. ↑ Emily Huntington Miller: A Summer Picture. In: jstor-org. 1870, accessed December 19, 2019 .
  14. ^ A b c Works by Miller Huntington. In: library-northwestern. Retrieved December 19, 2019 .
  15. ↑ My good for nothing. In: Library of congress. Retrieved December 19, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Huntington Miller, Emily
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author, educator, and university teacher
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , Connecticut
DATE OF DEATH November 2, 1913
Place of death Saint Paul