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Edith Franklin Wyatt

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Edith Franklin Wyatt
Wyatt, from a 1901 publication
Born(1873-09-14)September 14, 1873
Tomah, Wisconsin, U.S.
DiedOctober 26, 1958(1958-10-26) (aged 85)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
OccupationWriter

Edith Franklin Wyatt (September 14, 1873 – October 26, 1958) was an American novelist and poet based in Chicago.[1]

Biography

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Edith Franklin Wyatt was born on September 14, 1873, in Tomah, Wisconsin,[2] the daughter of Franklin Wyatt and Marion LaGrange Wyatt. Her family moved to Chicago when she was young.[2] She attended Miss Rice's Higher School for Girls, in Chicago,[3] and studied at Bryn Mawr College from 1892 to 1894.[4] In Chicago, she taught at Hull House.[2]

Wyatt died on October 26, 1958, in Chicago, and was buried at Graceland Cemetery.[5] Her papers are at the University of Chicago and the Newberry Library.[6][7]

Publications

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Wyatt wrote novels and poetry,[8][9] and reviewed books for the Chicago Tribune and other publications.[10] She and Sue Ainslie Clark wrote a 1910 study of the lives of working women in New York, published first as a series in McClure's and then in book form in 1911.[11]

Wyatt's grave at Graceland Cemetery

Fiction

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  • Every One His Own Way (1901, short stories)[2][12]
  • True Love (1903)[2]
  • The Whole Family (collaborative novel, 1908)
  • "A Failure" (short story, 1920)[13]
  • The Invisible Gods (1923, novel)[2][8][14]
  • The Satyr's Children: A Fable (1939)[4]

Poetry

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  • "The August Sky" (1914)[15]
  • "April Weather" and "Summer Hail" (1915)[16]
  • The Wind in the Corn and other poems (1917)[9]

Non-fiction

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References

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  1. ↑ "New Women Told of By Writer". Perth Amboy Evening News. March 13, 1923. p. 7. Retrieved September 10, 2026 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Bremer, Sidney H. (1982). "Wyatt, Edith Franklin". In Mainiero, Lina (ed.). American women writers : a critical reference guide from colonial times to the present. Vol. 4. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Company. pp. 473–475. ISBN 0-8044-3151-5. OCLC 5103380.
  3. ↑ Gilman, Agness Geneva; Gilman, Gertrude Marcelle (1927). Who's who in Illinois, women-makers of history. Chicago: Eclectic Publishers. p. 262. hdl:10111/UIUCOCA:whoswhoinillinoi00gilm. OCLC 1158337107.
  4. 1 2 "Edith Franklin Wyatt". Academy of American Poets. Retrieved May 15, 2021.
  5. ↑ "Miss Edith Franklin Wyatt". Chicago Tribune. October 28, 1958. p. 36.
  6. ↑ "Guide to the Edith Wyatt Papers 1953". The University of Chicago Library, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center. Retrieved September 10, 2026.
  7. ↑ Edith Franklin Wyatt, Newberry Transcribe, Digital Collections.
  8. 1 2 "Again the Panorama of American Life". The New York Times. March 11, 1923. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved May 15, 2021.
  9. 1 2 "Miss Wyatt's Verse". Evening Public Ledger. March 23, 1918. p. 13. Retrieved September 10, 2026 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. 1 2 Wyatt, Edith Franklin (December 15, 1928). "Letters Reveal Howells as World Yankee; Set Standard in U.S.; Despised Servility". Chicago Tribune. p. 17. Retrieved September 10, 2026 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. 1 2 Clark, Sue Ainslie; Wyatt, Edith (November 1910). "Working Girls' Budgets". McClure's. 36 (1): 70–86.
  12. ↑ "New Books". The Literary Era. 8 (6): 351. June 1901.
  13. ↑ Howells, William Dean (1920). The Great Modern American Stories: An Anthology. Boni and Liveright. pp. 312–319. ISBN 978-0-8274-2444-9. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
  14. ↑ "The Invisible Gods Striking Story of American Family". The Sacramento Bee. April 14, 1923. p. 46.
  15. ↑ The Gypsy Trail: An Anthology for Campers. M. Kennerley. 1914. p. 349.
  16. ↑ Wyatt, Edith Franklin (January 1915). ""April Weather" and "Summer Hail"". Poetry. 5 (4): 153–154.
  17. ↑ E. B. (September 1, 1917). "Pleasures of Attention (book review)". The New Republic: 140.
  18. ↑ Field, Walter Taylor (1925). The Field Reader. Ginn and Company. pp. 82–90.
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