Fanny Chambers Gooch

Fanny Chambers Gooch
Occupation Author
Nationality American

Fanny Chambers Gooch (1842-1913) was an American author.

Early life

Fanny Chambers Gooch was born in 1842 in Texas, where she spent the greater part of her life.[1]

Career

Through her book Face to Face with the Mexicans (New York, 1888), she became famous. The story of the inception, growth, publication and success of this book gave an insight into the character of its author, and is at the same time an interesting illustration of the changed conditions of the modern American woman's life. Gooch moved with her family to the city of Saltillo, Mexico. She went to Mexico almost entirely ignorant of the domestic manners of that country, and set up her home among them, expecting to order her household affairs after the same comfortable fashion which made her home in Austin, Texas. The story of the disillusionment told in the opening chapters of her book is exquisitely ludicrous. After a determined effort to force the immovable Mexican customs, she found herself compelled to yield to the inevitable. She might be compelled to do without a cooking-stove and to forego the delights of attending to her own marketing and shopping, but her genial soul demanded that, if foiled in her domestic plans, she would at least refuse to be shut out from social intercourse with the people among whom she found herself. Returning after some years to her former home in Austin, her descriptions of her Mexican experiences so entertained her friends that she was asked to prepare a series of articles on the subject for a Texas newspaper. She decided to publish her work in book form. She returned to Mexico, where she spent some time in its principal cities, mingling with its people in every station. She went to New York and superintended the publication of the work. The book at once attracted the notice of the leading reviewers and became very successful.[1]

She is also the author of The Boy Captive of the Texas Mier Expedition, The Tradition of Guadalupe and Christmas in Old Mexico and Christmas in Old Mexico.[2]

Personal life

The year following the publication of Face to Face with the Mexicans, Gooch married Dr. D. T. Iglehart, of Austin.[1]

She died in 1913.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Willard, Frances Elizabeth, 1839-1898; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice, 1820-1905 (1893). A woman of the century; fourteen hundred-seventy biographical sketches accompanied by portraits of leading American women in all walks of life. Buffalo, N.Y., Moulton. p. 323. Retrieved 8 August 2017. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. ↑ "Iglehart, Fanny Chambers Gooch 1842-1913". Retrieved 28 September 2017.
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