Sophia McIlvaine Herrick (née Bledsoe; March 26, 1837 – October 9, 1919) was an American science writer, editor, and literary critic.[1]
Life edit
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Born as Sophia McIlvaine Bledsoe on March 26, 1837, the daughter of Albert Taylor Bledsoe and Harriet (née Coxe) Bledsoe (of Gambier, Ohio), Sophia moved to New York after her marriage to the Reverend James B. Herrick, by whom she had several children. The couple separated when Herrick left the ministry to become a member of the Oneida Community.
She joined her father in Baltimore, contributing to the Southern Review and beginning a school for girls. She pursued an early interest in evolutionary theory by studying biology at Johns Hopkins University and published scientific articles in Century and Scribner's Magazine for a general audience. She became a frequent contributor of articles, writing as Mrs S. B. Herrick, and was for a time assistant editor to Richard Watson Gilder at Century. Her later works were on natural history and travel.
Sophia Bledsoe Herrick died on October 9, 1919, in Greenwich, Connecticut, aged 82.[2][3] She had three children: Albert (born 1862), Virginia (born 1863), and Louise (born 1866).[4] Her granddaughter was the anthropologist Sophie Bledsoe Aberle.[5]
Books edit
- The Wonders of Plant Life under the Microscope (1883)
- Chapters on Plant Life (1885)
- The Earth in Past Ages 1888
- Editor of A Century of Sonnets (1902)
References edit
- ^ Lisec, Aaron M. (February 2000). "Herrick, Sophia McIlvaine Bledsoe (1837-1919), editor and writer". American National Biography. doi:10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1600753. ISBN 978-0-19-860669-7.
- ^ Haverstock, Mary Sayre; Vance, Jeannette Mahoney; Meggitt, Brian L., eds. (2000). Artists in Ohio, 1787-1900: A Biographical Dictionary. Kent State University Press. pp. 403–404. ISBN 978-0-87338-616-6.
- ^ Hollis, C. Carroll (1979). "Sophia Bledsoe Herrick". In Flora, Joseph M. (ed.). Southern writers: a biographical dictionary. LSU Press. pp. 223–. ISBN 978-0-8071-0390-6. Retrieved January 18, 2011.
- ^ John William Leonard (1914). Woman's Who's who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada. American Commonwealth Company. p. 383.
- ^ "Aberle, Sophie D." snaccooperative.org. Retrieved 2018-07-20.
External links edit
- Bledsoe-Herrick family papers, 1750-1964. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
- Works by or about Sophia McIlvaine Herrick at Internet Archive
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