Eleanor Kirk

Eleanor (“Nellie” ) Maria Easterbrook Ames
Born Eleanor ("Nellie") Maria Easterbrook
October 7, 1831
Warren, Rhode Island, U.S.
Died 1908
Pen name Eleanor Kirk
Occupation writer, publisher
Language English
Nationality American

Eleanor Maria Easterbrook Ames (October 7, 1831 - 1908) better known by her pen name, Eleanor Kirk, was an American author from Rhode Island. She wrote a number of books and published a magazine entitled Eleanor Kirk's Idea. She was also a regular contributor to The Revolution and Packard's Monthly. Kirk died in 1908.

Biography

Eleanor ("Nellie") Maria Easterbrook was born in Warren, Rhode Island, October 7, 1831. Later, she moved to Brooklyn, New York. She wrote a number of books, under the pen name "Eleanor Kirk" designed to assist young writers, and she published a magazine entitled Eleanor Kirk's Idea, for the same purpose. Her works included "Up Broadway, and its Sequel" (New York, 1870), "Periodicals that Pay Contributors" (Brooklyn; privately printed),[1] "Information for Authors" (Brooklyn, 1888); and as editor, "Henry Ward Beecher as a Humorist" (New York, 1887), and "The Beecher Book of Days" (New York, 1886),[2] and "Perpetual Youth". She was also a regular contributor to The Revolution and Packard's Monthly,[3] and was a member of Woman's Press Club of New York City.[4] Before the age of 40, she had been twice left a widow and had five children requiring her support. In 1870, the New York Herald stated that she was “the most pronounced of the women’s rights women”.[5] Kirk died in 1908.[6][7]

Eleanor Kirk's Idea

Eleanor Kirk's Idea (1905)

The promotion of Eleanor Kirk's Idea - from the Ideal to the Actual[8] stated that "... the editor of this journal has worked out some perplexing problems. Because of this, she desires to show others the processes by which she did her sums. In other words, how to be happy instead of wretched, rich instead of poor, well and strong instead of sick and weak, good looking instead of haggard and ugly." The subscription price was US$1 per year, and single copies were available at $0.10 each. The publishing address was 696 Green Avenue, Brooklyn, New York.[9]

Selected works

Perpetual Youth
  • n.d., Libra : an astrological romance
  • 1890, Periodicals that pay contributors, to which is added a list of publishing houses
  • 1895, Perpetual Youth
  • 1897, Where you are : talks with girls
  • 1901, The Christ of the red planet
  • 1887, Beecher as a humorist : selections from the published works of Henry Ward Beecher

References

  1. ↑ Beach & Rines 1903, p. 487.
  2. ↑ Willard & Livermore 1893, p. 22.
  3. ↑ Kramarae & Rakow 2013, p. 289.
  4. ↑ Bailey 1893, p. 209-11.
  5. ↑ Collins, Paul (2 September 2014). "How to Pitch a Magazine (in 1888)". The New Yorker. Retrieved 10 May 2017.
  6. ↑ Warner et al. 1917, p. 21.
  7. ↑ MacNair 2006, p. 59.
  8. ↑ "Eleanor Kirk's Idea". www.iapsop.com. The International Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals. March 1905. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
  9. ↑ Fowler & Wells 1902, p. 306.

Attribution

  • This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bailey, M. (1893). The Chautauquan (Public domain ed.). Chautauqua, N.Y.: Chautauqua Institution.
  • This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Beach, Frederick Converse; Rines, George Edwin (1903). The Encyclopedia Americana (Public domain ed.). The Americana company.
  • This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Fowler & Wells (1902). The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health (Public domain ed.). Fowler & Wells.
  • This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Warner, Charles Dudley; Cunliffe, John William; Thorndike, Ashley Horace (1917). The Warner Library (Public domain ed.). Warner Library Company.
  • This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life (Public domain ed.). Moulton.

Bibliography

  • Kramarae, Cheris; Rakow, Lana F. (15 April 2013). The Revolution in Words. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-03402-3.
  • MacNair, Rachel M. (20 January 2006). ProLife Feminism: Yesterday and Today. Xlibris Corporation. ISBN 978-1-4771-7305-3.
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