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Grace Isabel Colbron
Colbron, from a 1914 publication
Born
Grace Isabel Merchant

(1867-06-24)June 24, 1867
New York, New York, U.S.
DiedSeptember 8, 1943(1943-09-08) (aged 76)
Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.
Other nameJ. Marchand (pseudonym)
OccupationsWriter, playwright, editor, translator, theatrical agent

Grace Isabel Merchant Colbron (June 24, 1867[Notes 1] – September 8, 1943) was an American writer, editor, and translator. She also wrote plays and worked as a theatrical director, actress, and agent. She was active in progressive reforms, especially the peace and single-tax movements.

Early life and education

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Colbron was born in New York City, the daughter of Albert Thorpe Merchant and Isabel de Forest Merchant. Her father died in 1876; her mother married stockbroker and photographer[1] William Townsend Colbron in 1880. Her maternal grandfather was the nephew and namesake of Cornelius Vanderbilt.[2] Colbron studied in schools in Germany and traveled in Europe, learning several languages.[3]

Career

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Colbron was a writer, editor, translator (from several languages), playwright, literary critic, and poet. She is especially known for her work with Austrian crime writer Auguste Groner.[4] She co-translated two shows that appeared on Broadway, Comtesse Coquette (1907) and The Guardsman (1924–1925). She also worked as a theatrical actress, director[5] and agent.

Colbron was involved in progressive causes including women's rights and peace,[6] but especially the single-tax movement. She was financial secretary of the Women's Henry George League of Manhattan.[7] She spoke at a national meeting of the Women's Single Tax League in Washington in 1912.[8] "Miss Colbron is the only woman lecturer sent out over the country by the Henry George Single Tax League," reported a Topeka newspaper when she lectured there in 1913.[9]

Publications

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Colbron, around 1930

As author or co-author

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  • A Patron of Art (play)[5]
  • "The Training of a German Actress" and "Dancing and Pantomime" (1904, articles, The Cosmopolitan)[10][11]
  • "Women and War" (1905, article)[12]
  • "Radicalism in Literature" and "Single Taxers of Germany in Conference" (1905, articles, The Single Tax Review)[13][14]
  • The Love That Blinds (1906, play, with Clayton Meeker Hamilton)[15]
  • Joe Müller, Detective (1910, novel, with Auguste Groner)[16]
  • "Single Tax, a Fundamental Reform" (1914, Life and Labor)[17]
  • "Algernon Blackwood: An Appreciation" (1915, The Bookman)[18]
  • "The Ballad of Bethlehem Steel" (1915, poem)[19]
  • The Lady in Blue: A Joseph Müller Story (1922, novel, with Auguste Groner)[20]
  • The Club Car Mystery (1928, novel)[21]

As translator or co-translator

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Death and legacy

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Colbron was on a lecture tour when she died from pneumonia in 1943, in Wilmington, Delaware, at the age of 76.[3][15] Her ashes were buried at the Woodland Theatre in Arden, Delaware.[34] Her anti-war poem "Ballad of Bethlehem Steel" was included in Constance M. Ruzich, ed., International Poetry of the First World War: An Anthology of Lost Voices (Bloomsbury 2020, 2022).[6]

Notes

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  1. ↑ June 24, 1867 is the birthdate given on Colbron's United States passport application in 1890; it is consistent with her appearance as a 3-year-old child in the 1870 United States census, via Ancestry. But some sources give 1869 as her birth year.

References

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  1. ↑ "Camera Club of New York records". New York Public Library. Retrieved 2026-09-04.
  2. ↑ "Mrs. William T. Colbron". The New York Times. July 21, 1935. p. 22. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2026-09-04.
  3. 1 2 "Miss Grace Colbron, A Play Translator; Author of Mystery Novels Had Lectured for Single Tax". The New York Times. September 9, 1943. p. 25. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2026-09-04.
  4. ↑ Kord, T. S. (2018-10-17). Lovable Crooks and Loathsome Jews: Antisemitism in German and Austrian Crime Writing Before the World Wars. McFarland. p. 167. ISBN 978-1-4766-3396-1.
  5. 1 2 3 "Guild Presents Bill of Plays". Bridgeport Telegram. 1927-07-15. p. 21. Retrieved 2026-09-04 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. 1 2 Ruzich, Constance M. (2020-10-15). International Poetry of the First World War: An Anthology of Lost Voices. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 197–198. ISBN 978-1-350-10646-8.
  7. ↑ "Publishers Notes". Single Tax Review. 4 (1): 34. July 15, 1904.
  8. ↑ "Women of the Single Tax League to Discuss Questions of the Day". The Washington Post. 1912-05-24. p. 12. Retrieved 2026-09-04 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ↑ "Woman's Part; Miss Grace Colbron's Lecture on Economics; Urges Single Tax". The Topeka Capital-Journal. 1913-05-03. p. 7. Retrieved 2026-09-04 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ↑ Colbron, Grace Isabel (May 1904). "The Training of a German Actress". The Cosmopolitan. 37 (1): 13–20.
  11. ↑ Colbron, Grace Isabel (July 1904). "Dancing and Pantomime". The Cosmopolitan. 37 (3): 387–393.
  12. ↑ Colbron, Grace Isabel (1905). "Women and War". The Advocate of Peace (1894-1920). 67 (4). World Affairs Institute: 85–86. ISSN 2155-7799. JSTOR 25752491.
  13. ↑ Colbron, Grace Isabel (January 15, 1905). "Single Taxers of Germany in Conference". The Single Tax Review. 4 (3): 23–26.
  14. ↑ Colbron, Grace Isabel (January 15, 1905). "Radicalism in Literature, Part 1". The Single Tax Review. 4 (3): 28–31.
  15. 1 2 W.L, “In Memoriam: Grace Isabel Colbron. The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 3, No. 1, Oct. 1943, p. 114
  16. ↑ Colbron, Grace Isabel; Groner, Auguste; Groner, Augusta; Duffield & Company. (1910). Joe Muller: detective: being the account of some adventures in the professional experience of a member of the imperial Austrian police. New York: Duffield and Company.
  17. ↑ Colbron, Grace Isabel (August 1914). "Single Tax, a Fundamental Reform". Life and Labor. 4 (8): 242–243 – via HathiTrust.
  18. ↑ Colavito, Jason (2012-04-23). "A Hideous Bit of Morbidity": An Anthology of Horror Criticism from the Enlightenment to World War I. McFarland. pp. 303–307. ISBN 978-0-7864-6909-3.
  19. ↑ Wienen, Mark W. Van (2002). Rendezvous with Death: American Poems of the Great War. University of Illinois Press. pp. 119–120. ISBN 978-0-252-07059-4.
  20. ↑ Groner, Auguste; Colbron, Grace Isabel; Duffield & Company. (1922). The lady in blue: a Joseph Muller story. New York: Duffield and Company.
  21. ↑ "Mystery Rides in Sleeping Car; Financier Vanishes on Wedding Night in Grace Colbron Thriller". The Brooklyn Daily Times. 1928-04-15. p. 80. Retrieved 2026-09-04 – via Newspapers.com.
  22. ↑ "Comtesse Coquette – Broadway Play – Original | IBDB". www.ibdb.com. Retrieved 2026-09-04.
  23. ↑ Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne; Colbron, Grace Isabel (1910). A lesson in marriage: a play in two acts. New York: Brandu's.
  24. ↑ Francke, Kuno (1914). The German Classics: Masterpieces of German Literature Translated Into English. German Publication Society.
  25. ↑ Wolzogen, Ernst von; Colbron, Grace Isabel (1914). The third sex. New York: The Macaulay Company.
  26. ↑ "The Guardsman – Broadway Play – Original | IBDB". www.ibdb.com. Retrieved 2026-09-04.
  27. ↑ Rung, Otto; Colbron, Grace Isabel (1924). Shadows that pass. New York etc.: D. Appleton and company.
  28. ↑ Michaëlis, Karin; Colbron, Grace Isabel (1927). Venture's end. New York: Harcourt, Brace and company.
  29. ↑ Paludan, Jacob; Colbron, Grace Isabel (1928). Birds around the light. New York ; London: G. P. Putnam.
  30. ↑ Schnitzler, Arthur; Colbron, Grace Isabel (1917). Anatol: Living hours: The green cockatoo. The modern library of the world's best books,32. New York: The Modern Library.
  31. ↑ Schnitzler, Arthur; Colbron, Grace Isabel; Mannes, Marya. (1933). Reigen, The affairs of Anatol and other plays. The Modern library of the world's best books. New York: The Modern library.
  32. ↑ Groner, Auguste; Colbron, Grace Isabel (1911). The man with the black cord. New York: Duffield & company.
  33. ↑ Groner, Auguste; Colbron, Grace Isabel (1918). Mene tekel: a tale of strange happenings. New York: Duffield & Co.
  34. ↑ "Arden Has Memorial for Grace Colbron". The Morning News. 1943-09-20. p. 10. Retrieved 2026-09-04 – via Newspapers.com.
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