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Namn enligt folkbokföringen: Irwin, Inez Haynes Gillmore
Andra namn: Inez Haynes Gillmore (first married name)
Inez Haynes (birthname)
Födelsedag: 1873-03-02
Avled: 1970-09-25
Kön: female
Nationalitet: USA
Födelseort: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Dödsort: Norwell, Massachusetts, USA
Bostadsorter: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
New York, New York, USA
Scituate, Massachusetts, USA
Yrken: editor (The Masses Magazine)
suffragist
women's rights activist
historian
novelist
short story writer (visa alla 8)
children's book author
war correspondent
Relationer: Gillmore, Rufus (first husband)
Irwin, William Henry (second husband, m. 1916-02-01)
Duganne, Phyllis (niece)
MacLane, Mary (friend)
Organisationer: National Women's Party (advisory council member)
Kort biografi: Inez Haynes Irwin was born in Rio de Janeirio, Brazil to American parents, Gideon and Emma Jane Haynes, who were living there due to her father's business problems. The family later returned to Boston, Massachusetts, where Inez attended public school and then Radcliffe College between 1897 and 1900. While a student, Inez was already a suffragist, and with Maud Wood Park founded the Massachusetts College Equal Suffrage Association, which later became the National College Equal Suffrage League.
In 1897, she married Rufus H. Gillmore, a newspaper editor, and took the name Inez Haynes Gillmore; the couple later divorced. She became a prolific writer and published her debut novel, June Jeopardy, in 1908. Soon afterwards, she became fiction editor of The Masses, a radical left-wing monthly magazine. In 1916, she married writer William Henry Irwin, and changed her name to Inez Haynes Irwin, although she continued publishing under her former surname. During World War I, the Irwins lived in Europe, where she worked as a war correspondent in England, France and Italy. As a feminist leader and political activist, she was allied with the National Woman's Party, the more radical wing of the suffrage movement. There she worked with Alice Paul and Lucy Burns as a member of the party's National Advisory Council. She also wrote for the party's publications and was the party's official biographer with her book The Story of the Woman's Party (1921). It was followed by a more ambitious history of American women, Angels and Amazons, published in 1933. In her career, Irwin published more than 30 novels, including Angel Island (1914), now considered a classic of early feminist literature. Her 15-book "Maida" series of children's books was written over a period of 45 years.

She also contributed short stories to magazines, including "The Spring Flight," which won the O. Henry Memorial Prize in 1924.

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Angel Island av Inez Haynes Gillmore

I didn’t have time to finish a book of my own before Jill handed me another one. This is an intriguing feminist work from the early part of this century, while a little dated, is still very enjoyable. The first part is a bit slow–five men are shipwrecked on a tropical island, and they play talking heads about their situation and their view of women. Finally the plot starts taking shape when they discover that they are being watched by some very unusual creatures. They debate what to do, and make their move about halfway through the book in what has to be one of the more shocking events that I’ve read in a book in quite a while. From there, the plot gets even more pointed, and it ends on quite a redeeming note. I’m sorry I I can’t go into more detail, but you really should read it yourself. Beware the edition that Jill gave me, however; there’s an introduction by Ursula LeGuin that gives away some plot bits. I was reading it before the book, but got an intimation that she was talking much more about the plot than I cared to know before reading the book.… (mer)

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engelcox | 3 andra recensioner | Oct 30, 2020 |

Maida's Little Shop av Inez Haynes Irwin

The Maida series of books were my spouse's favorites when she was growing up. This is the first of the series and was published in 1909 (well, my book says 1909, the wikipedia says 1910). Maida is a sick, little rich girl and her father, doctor and friend decide that she might be made well if only she could engage in something that truly interested her. She gets all excited by an old shop and they buy it and let her set it up (in Charlestown, MA). She makes her first real friends whilst the proprietress of the shop and over time regains her health.

I suppose that Maida painted a more-or-less rosy, but at least partially realistic picture of society some hundred years ago. Much seemed familiar to the things I read as a child. Some of the game were unfamiliar. Overall, it's a nice enough book with a basically cheerful, uplifting message. Good reading for kids and ok for us old folks who want to indulge into a bit of nostalgia.

I was interested to find out that the Maida series was written over a considerable period of time, four or five decades, and that the author, Inez Haynes Irwin was an ardent feminist. The feminism isn't overt in this book, but my spouse, who has read all the books in the series many times, tells me that it comes through in that boys and girls are treated more-or-less as equals in the series.
… (mer)

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lgpiper | 5 andra recensioner | Jun 21, 2019 |

Maida's Little Shop av Inez Haynes Irwin

Aww... Ok, the attitude that children can be angelic if offered friendship and a good example, and kept busy, is a little dated. And the HEA for Granny is a bit implausible. But I loved that the girls could be boisterous, and the boys could take care of babies and even cook.

I had a bit of trouble with the end, in that Papa, though he has been mostly absent these several months, is now going to take Maida away from her new friends - but I suppose he was absent against his preference, choosing to let Maida develop her self-reliance, and now he's going to make up for missing her so.

Mostly, though, I want a little shop of my own!… (mer)

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Cheryl_in_CC_NV | 5 andra recensioner | Jun 6, 2016 |

Angel Island av Inez Haynes Gillmore

[Angel Island] by Inez Haynes Gilmore
It was the morning after the shipwreck. The five men lay where they had slept. The first couple of sentences plunges the reader immediately into Inez Haynes Gillmore’s extraordinary fantasy tale that lays the ground for a pitched battle of the sexes on a desert island in the middle of the Pacific. It is extraordinary because of the limpid prose that entrances from the very start and locked this reader into the mysteries of the angel women who fly enticingly over the island. There are five angels (beautiful women with wings) for the five men and in the first part of the book we see them through the men’s eyes. They appear in their dreams and then fleeting glimpses before a grand seduction gets under way. They stay tantalisingly out of reach at times just hovering above them and the men are affected collectively and individually.

The five men are stock characters, gentlemen to a fault but all of a certain type and this is how Gillmore describes some of them:

Ralph Adlington the least popular in the group was a man of wide experience, a careful and intelligent observer both of men and things, but he was a man scrupulously honourable in regard to his own sex and absolutely codeless in regard to the other................ Frank Merrill was a professor at a small university a typical academic product: on his moral side he was a typical reformer, a man of impeccable private character, solitary and a little austere, he had never married; he had never sought the company of women..................... Honey Smith possessed not a trace of genius, he had no mind to speak of and was an average person, but for one thing ‘personality’ The whole world of creatures felt its charm: as for women - his appearance among them was a signal for a noiseless social cataclysm: they slipped and slid in his direction as helplessly as if an inclined plane had opened under their feet.

Gilmore matches the angel women to the men and an allegory emerges that develops enticingly through the story.

Who are the women? where do they come from? What business do they have with the men apart from an obvious sexual attraction, but the first question to be resolved is; should the men attempt to capture them. They decide to do so and from then on the book changes direction and concerns itself with relationships between the two groups. The women's wings are clipped, they lose their freedom and settle down to a domestic life, children are born and the men go off to work on the island, ever more engrossed in building bigger and better facilities. Gilmore still manages to keep elements of mystery and suspense as we learn more about the women and the book subtly changes to their point of view.

Honey Smith’s thoughts on women; They’re amateurs at life. They’re a failure as a sex and an outworn convention. Billy Fairfax says: Our duty is to cherish and protect them. They’re females says Ralph Adlington “Our duty is to tame, subjugate, infatuate and control them.

The angel women have a mountain to climb to win back their freedom, but the thought of their children and their own independence stirs them to take action.

Inez Haynes Gillmore wrote over 40 books and was active in the suffragist movement in the early 1900’s. Angel Island was published in 1914 and it’s charm and fantasy elements make palatable a political and social message that ranks alongside H G Wells best achievements. A wonderfully satisfying read, I loved it and so 4 stars.… (mer)