Elizabeth Terhune Corbett (1830–1899) was an American author of poetry and children's books.

Biography

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She was born Elizabeth Terhune Bogart in 1830 in New York City.[1]

Her books include Bunch and Joker and Other Stories (1878), Karl and the Queen of Queer-land (1880), Three Wise Old Couples (1881), and Rustic Rhymes and Ballads (1883).[2][3][4][5]

Corbett's story "My Visit to Utopia" has been studied since its 1869 publication in Harper's New Monthly Magazine.[6][7][8][9]

One of her poems was republished in 2004 in a children's picture book under the title Three Wise Old Women with illustrations by Yu-Mei Han. Kirkus Reviews wrote that the illustrator "transform[s] a brief bit of 19th-century nonsense verse into an elaborately silly outing".[10]

Corbett married Robert Henry Corbett around 1850. She died on July 8, 1899, in New York City.[1]

Works

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  • Bunch and Joker and Other Stories. With Adeline Dutton Train Whitney. 1878.[2]
  • Karl and the Queen of Queer-land. American Book Exchange, 1880.[3]
  • Three Wise Old Couples. Illustrated by Livingston Hopkins. London et al.: Cassell, Petter, Galpin and Co., 1881.[4][11]
  • Rustic Rhymes and Ballads. New York: Gilliss Bros., 1883.[5]
  • Jack and Jill: Comic Opera in Two Acts. Press of Gillis Brothers, 1883.[12]
  • Three Wise Old Women. Illustrated by Yu-Mei Han. New York: Dutton, 2004.[13][10][14]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Corbett, Elizabeth T." Library of Congress Authorities. Retrieved 2023-04-22.
  2. ^ a b Corbett, Elizabeth T.; Whitney, Adeline Dutton Train (1878). Bunch and Joker and Other Stories. D. Lothrop.
  3. ^ a b Corbett, Mrs Elizabeth T. (1880). Karl and the Queen of Queer-land. American Book Exchange.
  4. ^ a b Corbett, Elizabeth T. (1881). 3 Wise Old Couples. Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Company.
  5. ^ a b Corbett, Elizabeth T. (1883). Rustic Rhymes and Ballads. Gilliss Brothers.
  6. ^ ""Gold Would Cure That": Economic Feminism in Olive Harper's A Fair Californian". journal.finfar.org. 2021-06-21. Retrieved 2023-04-22.
  7. ^ Laschinger, Verena; Salenius, Sirpa (2019-04-02). Neglected American Women Writers of the Long Nineteenth Century. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-429-51393-0.
  8. ^ Roemer, Kenneth M. (1981). America as Utopia. B. Franklin. ISBN 978-0-89102-169-8.
  9. ^ Snodgrass, Mary Ellen (2015-04-22). Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature. Infobase Learning. ISBN 978-1-4381-4064-3.
  10. ^ a b Three Wise Old Women. Kirkus Reviews. 2004.
  11. ^ "UF Digital Collections". ufdc.ufl.edu. Retrieved 2023-04-21.
  12. ^ Corbett, Elizabeth T. (1883). "Jack and Jill": Comic Opera in Two Acts. Press of Gillis Brothers.
  13. ^ Corbett, Elizabeth T. (2004). Three wise old women. Yu-Mei Han (1st ed.). New York: Dutton Children's Books. ISBN 0-525-47230-4. OCLC 52887498.
  14. ^ "Zany tales will entertain youngsters". The Stuart News. 2004-05-23. p. 74. Retrieved 2023-04-21.

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