Julie M. Lippmann

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Julie Mathilde Lippmann (June 27, 1864 [1] - 1952) was a writer, literary critic, women's suffrage supporter, and political writer. [2] She wrote novels, plays, poetry, literary criticism, and U.S. propaganda during World War I. Her novel Martha By-The-Day was adapted on stage in 1914. [3] The 1919 film The Hoodlum (1919 film) was based on her novel Burkeses Amy.

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Lippmann was born in Brooklyn, New York. She was educated at private schools in Brooklyn and by a governess. She traveled extensively. [4]

She was friends with Louisa May Alcott, Charles Dudley Warner, William Gillette, and Mark Twain. [5] [2]

Her stories were published in various magazines. [6] She wrote the lyrics to the song "My Lady Jacqueminot". [2] Lippmann's poems included "If We But Knew" published in 1889 [7] and "Love and Life". [8]

After her death in 1952, her niece, artist and poet Julie Morrow DeForest, wrote the memoir "Auntie: Remininiscences of Julie M. Lippman". [5] [9]

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References

  1. LIPPMANN, Julie Mathilde, in Who's Who in America (1901-1902 edition); p. 688; via archive.org
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Lippmann at Songs of America".
  3. "Los Angeles Herald 9 December 1914 — California Digital Newspaper Collection".
  4. 1 2 "Distinguished successful Americans of our day: Containing biographies of prominent Americans now living, noteworthy as having achieved success in their chosen avocations in the various civil, military, educational, religious, industrial, commercial and other lines of human effort--men of thought and men of action who have been effective in the establishment and maintenance of our commonwealth, prominent citizens in all walks of life who are really the founders, makers and builders of our great republic as manifested in America's great institutions of finance, commerce and trade, and its unparalleled progress in education, literature, art, science, and in the development of our nation in all lines of human endeavor". 1911.
  5. 1 2 3 4 "archives.nypl.org -- "Auntie" : reminiscences of Julie M. Lippmann: typed manuscript". archives.nypl.org.
  6. Haste, Life - Be brief! Said Life: - Here's grief.
  7. "The Overland Monthly". 1889.
  8. Stevenson, Burton Egbert (1912). "The Home Book of Verse: American and English, 1580-1912".
  9. "DeForest, Julia Morrow [WorldCat Identities]".
  10. "Dearie, Dot and the dog". Library of Congress .
  11. 1 2 Smith, Geoffrey D. (13 August 1997). American Fiction, 1901-1925: A Bibliography. ISBN   9780521434690.
  12. Lippmann, Julie Mathilde (June 11, 1913). A fool and his money: a comedy in two acts. Penn. OCLC   836927261 via Open WorldCat.