Inez Haynes Gillmore
Personal Information
Description
Inez Haynes was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1873, the daughter of Gideon and Emma Jane (Hopkins) Haynes. Her parents, who were from Boston, returned to the U.S. during her childhood and she was raised in Boston. In 1897 she married her first husband, Rufus Hamilton Gillmore, a newspaperman who supported her feminism. While at Radcliffe (1897-1900), she became involved in the women's suffrage movement. Her first novel, June Jeopardy, was published in 1908. Her first marriage ended in divorce, and in 1916 she married writer Will Irwin. During World War I, she and her husband served as war correspondents in France, England and Italy. She was awarded the O. Henry Award for her short story "The Spring Flight" (1924). In 1948, her second husband died, and she relocated to Scituate, Massachusetts. In addition to her popular Maida series of children's books, she wrote novels and short stories. Her fiction often dealt frankly with feminist concerns and women’s social issues, including divorce, single parenthood and workplace issues. She also wrote mysteries, and other books, including an etiquette book for girls, a travel book about California, and “Angels and Amazons: A Hundred Years of American Women”, a collection of biographical sketches.
Books
The Californiacs
Frontispiece is a tipped in color print from the painting of William Keith. This essay was published in Sunset, the Pacific Monthly, for February, 1916. It is reprinted by kind permission of Sunset, Woodhead, Field and Company
Angel Island
Describes Angel Island, the California immigration station set up to receive people from Asia, and the story of how immigration officials detained many Chinese people whom they wanted to keep out of the United States.
Maida's little house
Maida returns to Charleston, Mass. for the summer, and she and the other children are allowed to live in a out-of-the-way little house, while her father lives in the big house.
Maida's Little School
The happy children at Maida's Little House dread the coming of school days. And even when Maida's father promises them a new kind of school of their very own, they still wish their good times could last forever. Little do they guess when delightful "Mr. Lafayette" who can speak nothing but French, and their beloved "Bunny" who writes stories for children, and dashing young "Robin Hood," just back from a scientific expedition to the Arctic, come to "visit them awhile" that they are really attending "Maida's Little School." [from dust jacket]
Maida's little zoo
Mr. Oliphant, a photographer and big-game hunter, is going to Europe for the summer and his daughter Anne will stay with the Big Eight in the Little House but, best of all, he is lending Mr. Westabrook his zoo to take care of.