Mary Ellen Chase

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Mary Ellen Chase (born February 24, 1887 in Blue Hill , Maine , USA , † July 28, 1973 in Northampton , Massachusetts ) was an American writer and university professor .

Chase received her PhD in English from the University of Minnesota , where she was a professor's assistant from 1922 to 1926. She taught at Smith College from 1926 until she retired in 1955.

She wrote more than 30 books. Her most famous works were Mary Peters ( Mary Peters , 1934), Silas Crockett (1935), Windswept. Roman three generations ( Windswept , 1941) and the Company of Darkness ( Edge of Darkness , 1957). In addition, she dealt intensively with the Bible , its language and how it should be conveyed to modern people. To this end, she published, among other things, The Book of Books. The Bible and the man of today ( The Bible and the Common Reader , 1944) and life and language in the Old Testament ( Life and Language in the Old Testament , 1955). In addition, she presented several academic and didactic non-fiction books, of which Constructive Theme Writing for College Freshmen (first published in 1929) became a standard work that was published three times by 1957. Maria von Schweinitz created most of her works in German .

In 1926, Mary Ellen Chase met her colleague Eleanor Duckett at Smith College in Northampton , who taught there as a professor of classical languages ​​and literature. Soon after, the two women moved into a house on the college campus. They made numerous trips, to England and to Windswept , a house on the Maine coast that inspired Chase to write the novel of the same name. “It was quite clear that a deep bond of love united these two women” (“It was very clear that these two women were united by a deep bond of love”), writes the historian Susan Mosher Stuard. The partners were very different: Chase was more extroverted and lively, Duckett shy and reserved. Chase and Duckett lived together until their death in 1973. Mary Ellen Chase and Eleanor Duckett were buried side by side in a Blue Hill cemetery, not far from the Chase family home. In 1968 Smith College named two adjoining dormitories Chase House and DuckettHouse .

Works

  • His Birthday , Boston 1915
  • The Girl from the Big Horn Country , Boston 1916
  • Virginia of Elk Creek Valley , Boston 1917
  • Mary Christmas , Boston 1926
  • together with Frances K. Del Plaine: The Art of Narration , New York 1926
  • Uplands , Boston 1927
  • Thomas Hardy From Serial to Novel , Minneapolis 1927
  • with Margaret Eliot Macgregor: The Writing of Informal Essays , New York 1928
  • Constructive Theme Writing for College Freshmen , New York 1929 (2nd revised edition 1938; 3rd edition 1957)
  • The Golden Asse and other Essays , New York 1929
  • The Silver Shell , New York 1930
  • A Goodly Heritage , New York 1932 (German geniuses of childhood , Augsburg 1948)
  • Mary Peters , New York 1934 (German Mary Peters , Vienna and Augsburg 1947)
  • Silas Crockett , New York 1935
  • This England , New York 1936
  • In England Now , London 1937
  • Dawn in Lyonesse , New York 1938 (German spring light over Cornwall. Roman , Hamburg 1938)
  • A Goodly Fellowship , New York 1939
  • Windswept , New York 1941 (German Windswept. Three Generations Novel , Zurich 1944)
  • The Bible and the Common Reader , New York 1944 (2nd, revised edition 1952; German. The book of books. The Bible and man of today , Stuttgart 1951)
  • Jonathan Fisher. Maine Parson, 1768-1847 , New York 1948
  • The Plum Tree , New York 1949 (dt. The plum tree , Munich 1966)
  • Abby Aldrich Rockefeller , New York 1950
  • Recipe for a Magic Childhood , New York 1951
  • as editor / compiler: Readings from the Bible , New York 1952
  • The White Gate. Adventures in the Imagination of a Child , New York 1954
  • Life and Language in the Old Testament , New York 1955 (German life and language in the Old Testament , Munich 1957)
  • The Edge of Darkness , New York 1957 (German. Am Rande der Dunkelheit. Roman , Munich 1964)
  • Sailing the Seven Seas , Boston 1958
  • Donald McKay and the Clipper Ships , North Star Books (12), Boston 1959
  • The lovely ambition. A Novel , New York 1960 (Ger. The greater love. Roman , Munich 1961)
  • The Fishing Fleets of New England , North Star Books (28), Boston 1961
  • The Psalms for the Common Reader , New York 1962
  • Victoria. A Pig in a Pram , New York 1963
  • The Prophets for the Common Reader , New York 1963
  • Richard Mansfield, the Prince of Donkeys , New York 1964
  • Dolly Moses. The Cat and the Clam Chowder , New York 1964
  • The Story of Lighthouses , New York 1965
  • A Journey to Boston , New York 1965 (German: A Journey to Boston , Munich 1966)
  • A Walk on an Iceberg , New York 1966

literature

  • Elienne Squire: A Lantern in the Wind. The Life of Mary Ellen Chase. Fithian Press, Santa Barbara CA 1995, ISBN 1-56474-132-X .
  • Evelyn Hyman Chase: Feminist Convert. A Portrait of Mary Ellen Chase. J. Daniel, Santa Barbara CA 1988, ISBN 0-936784-70-9 .
  • Susan Mosher Stuard: Eleanor Shipley Duckett (1880-1976). Historian of the Latin Middle Ages . In: Jane Chance (ed.): Women Medievalists and the Academy . University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, WI 2005, ISBN 0-299-20750-1 , pp. 213-226 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stuard, Eleanor Shipley Duckett . P. 218.
  2. ↑ a b Stuard, Eleanor Shipley Dukett , p. 224.
  3. ↑ Duckett, Eleanor Shipley. In: Smithipedia. Retrieved May 2, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Chase, Mary Ellen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Blue Hill , Maine , USA
DATE OF DEATH July 28, 1973
Place of death Northampton , Massachusetts