Grace Ellery Channing

Grace Ellery Channing.

Grace Ellery Channing (December 27, 1862 – April 3, 1937) was a writer and poet who published often in The Land of Sunshine.

She was born to William Francis Channing and Mary Jane (née Tarr) on December 27, 1862 in Providence, Rhode Island. Channing Stetons's father was an inventor who had worked with Alexander Graham Bell in developing the telephone and whose father was William Ellery Channing, a noted early nineteenth century Unitarian preacher. Also through her father, she was a great-great-granddaughter of William Ellery (1727–1820), a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence.

Channing Stetson had two siblings: Mary Channing Wood (who married Clarence Wood and had two children, Dorothy and Ellery) and Harold Channing. Channing Stetson received a private school education, graduating from the Normal Class for Kindergarten in 1882. After graduation, she taught at the free kindergarten in Providence.[1]

Channing moved from Providence, Rhode Island to Southern California in the late 1880s, as part of a successful bid to cure her lung troubles. Her poetry and other writing was influenced by three years in Italy in the early 1890s and by her time living in Southern California.[2]

Channing began her career as a writer by editing her grandfather's memoirs, Dr. Channing's Notebook (1887). She became an associate editor of The Land of Sunshine (later Outwest), and in her tenure as a writer and poet contributor to the publication, advocated for an increased reliance on Mediterranean practices for Los Angelenos. This included embracing the sun instead of avoiding it, eating lighter food, and taking in wine and afternoon naps.[3][4]

Channing married Charles Walter Stetson soon after his divorce from Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1894.[5]

Channing was good friends with Gilman, and the three continued to have good relations after the divorce and marriage. Stetson and Gilman's daughter, Katherine went to live with Channing and Stetson when she was 9.[6]

Notes

  1. ↑ "Grace Ellery Channing Stetson Papers: Biography/Administrative History". The Online Archive of California. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
  2. ↑ Starr 1985, p. 76
  3. ↑ Starr 1985, pp. 76–78
  4. ↑ "Channing, Grace Ellery, 1862-1937. Papers of Grace Ellery Channing, 1806-1973: A Finding Aid". Harvard University Library. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
  5. ↑ Grimm 1997, p. 51
  6. ↑ Makwosky 1993, p. 329

References

  • Starr, Kevin (1985). Inventing the Dream: California through the Progressive Era. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195042344.
  • Grimm, Robert Thornton (Spring 1997). "Forerunner for a Domestic Revolution: Jane Addams, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and the Ideology of Childhood, 1900-1916". Illinois Historical Journal. Chicago, Illinois: University of Illinois Press on behalf of the Illinois State Historical Society. 90 (1): 47–64. JSTOR 40193109.
  • Makwosky, Veronica (Summer 1993). "Fear of Feeling and the Turn-of-the-Century Woman of Letters". American Literary History. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 5 (2): 326–334. JSTOR 489751.


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