Zephine Humphrey
American writer
Harriette Zephine Humphrey Fahnestock (December 15, 1874 – November 14, 1956), usually writing as Zephine Humphrey , was an American writer based in Vermont.
Early life and education
Harriette Zephine Humphrey was born in Philadelphia [ 1] in 1874, the daughter of Zephaniah Moore Humphrey and Harriet (Hattie) Lee Sykes Humphrey.[ 2] Her mother was a lecturer who influenced Jane Addams .[ 3] Her grandfather was Heman Humphrey , the second president of Amherst College .[ 4] Presbyterian leader Edward Porter Humphrey and politician James Humphrey were her uncles. Her first cousins included Presbyterian scholar Edward William Cornelius Humphrey and judge Alexander Pope Humphrey . She graduated from Smith College in 1896. She traveled in Europe for two years after college, with her widowed mother.[ 3]
Career
Humphrey was known as a prolific writer of fiction and essays with regional,[ 1] nature,[ 5] travel,[ 6] and religious themes.[ 7] [ 8] The New York Times wrote in a 1938 review that "she writes the entire first chapter of her travel book about her husband's sciatica and makes it a thoroughly charming introduction".[ 9] She was often associated with fellow Vermont writers Dorothy Canfield Fisher and Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn .[ 10] She worked with them on political causes including the abolition of the death penalty, and traveled with both women to Rome.[ 11] Poet Robert Frost called the three women "Vermont's Three Verities".[ 12] She objected to the creation of the Green Mountain Parkway , noting that, "Alone among the New England States, Vermont still retains a measure of freedom from the opportune standards of the present day."[ 13] She was active with the Vermont Children's Aid Society.[ 14] [ 15]
Publications
Books
The Calling of the Apostle (1900)[ 16]
Uncle Charley (1902)[ 17]
The Story of Mary Mecome (1906)[ 18]
Over Against Green Peak (1908, 1911)[ 19] [ 20]
Recollections of my Mother (1912)[ 4]
The Edge of the Woods and other Papers (1913)[ 21]
Grail Fire (1917)[ 22]
The Homestead (1919)[ 23] [ 24]
The Sword of the Spirit (1920)[ 25]
Mountain Verities (1923)[ 26]
The Story of Dorset (1924)[ 27]
Winterwise (1927)[ 28]
Chrysalis (1928)[ 29]
The Beloved Community (1930)[ 30] [ 31]
Green Mountains to Sierras (1936)[ 32] [ 33]
Cactus Forest (1938)[ 34]
'Allo good-by (1940)[ 35] [ 36]
A Book of New England (1947)[ 37]
God and Company (1953)[ 7] [ 38]
Essays and stories
"Five Women on the Trail" (1909)[ 39]
"Nothing" (1913)[ 40]
"In the Wilderness" (1915)[ 41]
"The Passing of Indoors" (1916)[ 42]
"The Glory of the States: Vermont" (1917)[ 43]
"Corners" (1920)[ 44]
"The New Crop" (1923)[ 45]
"On Writing a Town History" (1925)[ 46]
"On Re-reading the Bible" (1925)[ 47]
"The Modern Woman's Home" (1926)[ 48]
Personal life
In 1914, Zephine Humphrey married artist Wallace Weir Fahnestock and moved to Dorset, Vermont .[ 49] [ 50] She died there in 1956, aged 81 years.[ 2] A box of her papers is in the collection of the University of Vermont Libraries.[ 51] The Dorset Historical Society also has materials related to Zephine Humphrey Fahnestock.[ 52]
References
^ a b EAH (1928-10-02). "Weekend Trips to Nearby Towns of Nationally Famous Vermonters: Zephine Humphrey" . Rutland Daily Herald . p. 4. Retrieved 2022-03-21 – via Newspapers.com.
^ a b "Mrs. Fahnestock Dead at 81" . The Bennington Evening Banner . 1956-11-15. p. 8. Retrieved 2022-03-21 – via Newspapers.com.
^ a b Addams, Jane (2019-02-15). The Selected Papers of Jane Addams: Vol. 3: Creating Hull-House and an International Presence, 1889-1900 . University of Illinois Press. pp. note 31. ISBN 978-0-252-09952-6 .
^ a b Humphrey, Zephine (1912). Recollections of my mother . New York, Chicago etc.: Fleming H. Revell company.
^ Thorpe, Dorothy Ann (1938-08-07). "Zephine Humphrey Writes of Deserts and Artists" . The Times Dispatch . p. 63. Retrieved 2022-03-21 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Lackey, Kris (1999-02-01). RoadFrames: The American Highway Narrative . U of Nebraska Press. p. 42. ISBN 978-0-8032-7981-0 .
^ a b "Zephine Humphrey Book Out Wednesday" . The Bennington Evening Banner . 1953-09-12. p. 4. Retrieved 2022-03-21 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "The Brattleboro Book Fair (advertisement)" . The Brattleboro Reformer . 1939-10-11. p. 5. Retrieved 2022-03-21 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "They Left Vermont for Arizona; CACTUS FOREST. By Zephine Humphrey. 245 pp. New York: E.. P. Dutton & Co. $2.50" . The New York Times . 1938-07-10. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2022-03-21 .
^ Phelps, William Lyons (October 1927). "As I Like It" . Scribner's Magazine . 82 : 503.
^ Schroeter, Joan G. (September 1995). "Sarah Cleghorn and the Religious Left" . Colby Quarterly . 31 : 214– 227.
^ Vermont: Works Progress Administration Federal Writers' Project (1937). Vermont: A Guide to the Green Mountain State . US History Publishers. p. 73. ISBN 978-1-60354-044-5 .
^ "Zephine Humphrey Fahnestock Objects to Green Mountain Parkway" . The Burlington Free Press . 1933-10-21. p. 4. Retrieved 2022-03-21 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Humphrey, Zephine (1921). Pride in Posterity: A Sketch by Zephine Humphrey . The Society.
^ "Zephine Humphrey Fahnestock Asks Aid for Children" . The Burlington Free Press . 1932-03-23. p. 9. Retrieved 2022-03-21 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Humphrey, Zephine (1900). The calling of the apostle . New York, London: Bonnell, Silver & Co.
^ Humphrey, Zephine; Riverside Press (Cambridge, Mass); Houghton Mifflin Company (1902). Uncle Charley . Boston ; New York: Houghton Mifflin Company.
^ Humphrey, Zephine (1906). The story of Mary Mecome . New York: Dodge Pub. Co. OCLC 613041459 .
^ Humphrey, Zephine; Henry Holt and Company (1908). Over against Green Peak . New York: Henry Holt and Company.
^ Humphrey, Zephine (1911). Over against Green Peak . New York: H. Holt and Company.
^ Humphrey, Zephine (1913). The edge of the woods, and other papers . New York, Chicago etc.: Fleming H. Revell company.
^ Humphrey, Zephine (1917). Grail fire . New York: E.P. Dutton & co.
^ Humphrey, Zephine (1919). The homestead . New York: E.P. Dutton & company.
^ Shinn, Charles H. (1919-10-12). "Weekly Comments" . The Fresno Morning Republican . p. 25. Retrieved 2022-03-21 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Humphrey, Zephine; E.P. Dutton (Firm) (1920). The sword of the spirit . New York: E.P. Dutton & Company.
^ Humphrey, Zephine (1923). Mountain verities . New York: E.P. Dutton and Company. OCLC 3592896 .
^ Humphrey, Zephine; Lee, Elizabeth Sykes (1924). The story of Dorset . Rutland, Vt.: The Tuttle company.
^ Humphrey, Zephine (1927). Winterwise . New York: E. P. Dutton & company.
^ Humphrey, Zephine (1929). Chrysalis . New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc. OCLC 5116649 .
^ Humphrey, Zephine (1930). The beloved community . New York: E. P. Dutton & co., inc.
^ "Zephine Humphrey's New Book is Success" . The Burlington Free Press . 1930-06-03. p. 2. Retrieved 2022-03-21 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Humphrey, Zephine (1936). Green mountains to Sierras . New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc. OCLC 2562129 .
^ "Western Trip Depicted in Story" . The Manchester Journal . 1936-06-25. p. 7. Retrieved 2022-03-21 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Humphrey, Zephine (1938). Cactus forest . New York: E.P. Dutton & co., inc.
^ Humphrey, Zephine (1940). 'Allo good-by . New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc. OCLC 935907 .
^ "Travelog of Mexico" . Fort Worth Star-Telegram . 1940-07-07. p. 36. Retrieved 2022-03-21 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Humphrey, Zephine (1947). A book of New England . New York: Howell, Soskin.
^ Humphrey, Zephine (1953). God and company . New York: Harper. OCLC 2944424 .
^ Skidmore, Colleen (2017-03-24). Searching for Mary Schäffer: Women Wilderness Photography . University of Alberta. pp. 126– 128. ISBN 978-1-77212-298-5 .
^ Humphrey, Zephine (1913). "Nothing" . In Thomas, Charles Swain (ed.). Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories . Atlantic Monthly Press. pp. 167– 179.
^ Humphrey, Zephine (May 1915). "In the Wilderness" . The Forum . 53 : 567– 574.
^ Humphrey, Zephine (1916). "The Passing of Indoors" . Atlantic Classics . Atlantic Monthly Company. pp. 252– 264.
^ Zephine Humphrey, "The Glory of the States: Vermont," American Magazine , September, 1917. Two pages.
^ Humphrey, Zephine (November 1920). "Corners" . The World Tomorrow . 3 : 337– 338.
^ Harrison, Blake A. (2006). The View from Vermont: Tourism and the Making of an American Rural Landscape . UPNE. pp. 81– 82. ISBN 978-1-58465-591-6 .
^ Humphrey, Zephine. "On Writing a Town History" in Odell Shepard, ed., Essays of 1925 (E. V. Mitchell 1925): 273-281.
^ Zephine Humphrey, "On Re-reading the Bible," in Saturday Review of Literature , July 4, 1925, pp. 869 - 870.
^ Humphrey, Zephine (June 1926). "The Modern Woman's Home: Recording Some Doubts and Questions" . The Woman Citizen . 10 : 22, 37.
^ Duffy, John J.; Hand, Samuel B.; Orth, Ralph H. (2003). The Vermont Encyclopedia . UPNE. p. 119. ISBN 978-1-58465-086-7 .
^ Smith, Mary Gilbert (1934-10-05). "Home of the Fahnestocks (Wallace and Zephine Humphrey) in Dorset Hollow" . Rutland Daily Herald . p. 8. Retrieved 2022-03-21 – via Newspapers.com.
^ The Zephine Humphrey Papers , University of Vermont Libraries, Special Collections Repository.
^ Zephine Humphrey Fahnestock materials , Dorset Historical Society.
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