Josephine Daskam Bacon

Josephine Daskam Bacon (Mrs. Selden Bacon) (born: Josephine Dodge Daskam) (February 17, 1876 – July 29, 1961) was an American writer of great versatility. She is chiefly known as a writer who made the point of having female protagonists.

Josephine Daskam Bacon
Born(1876-02-17)February 17, 1876
Stamford, Connecticut, United States
DiedJuly 29, 1961(1961-07-29) (aged 85)
United States
OccupationNovelist, short story writer
Genrerealistic fiction

Career

Josephine Dodge Daskam was born on February 17, 1876, in Stamford, Connecticut. She later married Seldon Bacon.

Bacon wrote a series of juvenile mysteries, as well as works dealing with more serious themes. She published books of poetry, which were well received by critics; as noted by one critic, some of her poetry was set to music.[1] She was published under the name "Josephine Daskam".

She wrote on women's issues and women's roles as well.[2] She was a pioneer in the Girl Scouts movement and compiled the guidebook[3] used by that organization.[4]

Bacon graduated from Smith College in 1898.[4] She published a collection of ten short stories inspired by her experiences in 1900, intending "to deepen...the rapidly growing conviction that the college girl is very much like any other girl."[5]

Josephine Daskam Bacon's portrait as published with a review of her volume Poems (1903).

List of works[6]
  • Smith College Stories (1900)
  • Sister's Vocation, and Other Girls' Stories (1900)
  • The Imp and the Angel (1901)
  • Fables for the Fair (1901)
  • The Best Nonsense Verses (ed) (1901)
  • Whom the Gods Destroyed (1902)
  • The Madness of Philip (1902)
  • Poems (1903)
  • Middle Aged Love Stories (1903)
  • Her Fiancé (1904)
  • Memoirs of a Baby (1904)
  • The Imp and the Angel (1907)
  • The Domestic Adventurers (1907)
  • An Idyll of All Fool's Day (1908)
  • Ten to Seventeen (1908)
  • Margarita's Soul (1909)
  • In the Border Country (1909)
  • The Biography of a Boy (1910)
  • While Caroline Was Growing (1911)
  • The Inheritance (1912)
  • The Strange Cases of Dr Stanchon (1913)
  • The Luck o' Lady Joan (1913)
  • To-day's Daughter (1914)
  • Open Market (1915)
  • Twilight of the Gods (1915)
  • On Our Hill (1918)
  • The Golden Eaglet (1918 movie)
  • Square Peggy (1919)
  • The Film of Fate (1919)
  • Blind Cupid (1923)
  • Truth o' Women (1923)
  • Medusa's Head (1926)
  • Counterpoint (1927)
  • The Luck of Lowry (1931)
  • Kathy (1933)
  • The Girl at the Window (1934)
  • The Room on The Roof (1935)
  • Cassie-on-the-Job (1936)
  • The House by the Road (1937)
  • The Root and the Flower (1939]
  • The Door in the Closet (1940)
  • The World in/on His Heart (1941)

Additional information

References
  1. "Josephine Daskam "Poems"". Newspaper unknown; clipping filed with the New York Public Library Archives. New York Public Library Archives; Historical and Public Figures Collection. 1903.
  2. 1876-1961, Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam. "Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon Papers, 1904-1934 Finding Aid". asteria.fivecolleges.edu.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. "The Project Gutenberg eBook of Scouting for Girls, edited by Josephine Daskam Bacon". www.gutenberg.org.
  4. Lundle, Catherine A. (1996). Restless Spirits: Ghost Stories by American Women, 1872-1926. University of Massachusetts Press. p. 73. ISBN 9781558490567.
  5. Daskam, Josephine Dodge (1900). Smith College Stories. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
  6. OpenLibrary.org. "Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon". Open Library.
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