Mary Abigail Dodge (1833–1896)
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Skirmishes and sketches 3 exemplar
Gail Hamilton's Life in Letters. Edited by H. A. Dodge. (Biographical sketch by H. P. Spofford.) 2 exemplar
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- Dodge, Mary Abigail
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- Hamilton, Gail (pen name)
- Födelsedag
- 1833-03-31
- Avled
- 1896-08-17
- Begravningsplats
- Hamilton, Massachusetts, USA
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Hamilton, Massachusetts, USA
- Dödsort
- Hamilton, Massachusetts, USA
- Bostadsorter
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Ipswich, Massachusetts, USA
Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Washington, D.C., USA - Utbildning
- Ipswich Female Seminary
- Yrken
- essayist
journalist
governess
women's rights advocate - Relationer
- Bailey, Gamaliel (employer)
Blaine, James G. (host)
Fields, James Thomas (publisher)
Fields, Annie Adams (friend) - Kort biografi
- Mary Abigail Dodge was born on a farm in Hamilton, Massachusetts. She was blind in one eye as a result of a childhood accident. At age 12, she was sent to a boarding school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, then enrolled at the Ipswich Female Seminary. After graduating in 1850, she taught there for four years, during which time she wrote poetry and prose sketches, of which she submitted samples to the editor of the anti-slavery journal National Era, Gamaliel Bailey. In 1858, she accepted Bailey's invitation to move to Washington, D.C. to become governess to his children. In Washington, she established herself as a popular and successful writer whose works appeared in various periodicals under the pseudonym Gail Hamilton, and were admired for their practical wisdom and wit. Among her works were political commentaries, making her one of the first female political correspondents in the USA.
In 1860, Miss Dodge returned home to Massachusetts to help care for her ailing mother. During the next eight years, she published two collections of essays, Country Living and Country Thinking (1862) and A New Atmosphere (1865), as well as a strong defense of women’s right to equal educational and job opportunities, Woman’s Wrongs: A Counter-Irritant (1868). She also co-edited a juvenile magazine, Our Young Folks. Battle of the Books (1870) was a witty and strongly negative account of her disagreements with her first publisher, Ticknor & Fields of Boston. By 1871, she returned to Washington to live with the family of Speaker of the House James G. Blaine, who was married to her cousin, but still traveled widely in the USA and Europe. She wrote several more books, including The Biography of James G. Blaine. (1883).
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