Esther Saville Allen
{{Short description|American author}}
{{Infobox writer
| name = Esther Saville Allen
| image = ESTHER SAVILLE ALLEN.jpg
| alt =
| caption = "A Woman of the Century"
| nickname = Etta
| pseudonym = Winnie Woodbine, Etta Saville, Mrs. S. R. Allen
| birth_name = Esther Saville
| birth_date = December 11, 1837
| birth_place = Honeoye, New York, U.S.
| death_date = {{dda|1913|7|16|1837|12|11}}
| death_place =
| resting_place = Little Rock National Cemetery, Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S.
| occupation = author
| spouse = {{marriage|Samuel R. Allen|1859}}
}}
Esther Saville Allen ({{nee}}, Saville; pen names, Winnie Woodbine, Etta Saville, Mrs. S. R. Allen; December 11, 1837 - July 16, 1913) was an American author of the long nineteenth century. In her day, Allen was likely the author of more works, both in prose and verse, than any other woman in Arkansas.{{sfn|Willard|Livermore|1893|p=19-20}} She died in 1913.
Biography
Esther (nickname, "Etta") Saville was born in Honeoye, New York on December 11, 1837. Her parents were Joseph and Esther Redfern Saville, both from England. Her father contributed to British journals of his time. Before Esther Saville was ten years old, she made her first public effort in a poem, which was published. At the age of 12 years, she wrote for Morris and Willis a poem which they published in the "Home Journal." While studying in Western New York and Rushford, New York, she wrote and published many poems under the pen-name, "Winnie Woodbine."{{sfn|Willard|Livermore|1893|p=19-20}}
Allen became a teacher in the public schools of western New York and continued to write for eastern papers, assuming her proper name, "Etta Saville." She moved to Illinois in 1857 and she taught in public schools there until she married in 1859. After her marriage to Samuel R. Allen, a lawyer in Erie, Illinois, all her literary works were published under the name of "Mrs. S. R. Allen." In 1872, she removed to Little Rock, Arkansas. Much of her work has been widely copied and recopied. Devoted to charity, organized and practical, her writings in that cause promoted the institution and development of useful work, or revived and reinvigorated it.{{sfn|Willard|Livermore|1893|p=19-20}}
She died in Little Rock, Arkansas on July 16, 1913, and was buried next to her husband in the Little Rock National Cemetery. At the time, she was the only woman to be buried in the cemetery.{{cite news |title=OBITUARY. MRS. ETTA S. ALLEN CLAIMED BY DEATH. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/108480293/obit-etta-saville-allen-died-16-july/ |access-date=28 August 2022 |work=Daily Arkansas Gazette |via=Newspapers.com |date=17 July 1913 |page=9}}
Selected works
=Poems=
- "The Home Coming"{{cite book |last1=Gilbert |first1=Helen Josephine White |title=Rushford and Rushford People |date=1910 |publisher=H.J.W. Gilbert |page=498 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KvE2AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA498 |access-date=22 January 2022 |language=en |chapter=GREAT CELEBRATIONS. THE HOME COMING.}} {{PD-notice}}
- "Home Again", 1908{{cite book |title=The Rushford Centennial, August 16-21, 1908: With Data and Reminiscences |date=1908 |publisher=The Committee |page=193 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tScVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA193 |access-date=27 August 2022 |language=en}} {{Source-attribution}}
=Short stories=
References
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=Bibliography=
- {{Source-attribution| {{cite book|last1=Willard|first1=Frances Elizabeth|last2=Livermore|first2=Mary Ashton Rice|title=A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_zXEEAAAAYAAJ|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_zXEEAAAAYAAJ/page/n23 19]|edition=Public domain|year=1893|publisher=Moulton}} }}
External links
- {{wikisource-inline|Woman of the Century/Esther Saville Allen}}
- {{Internet Archive author |sname=Allen, Esther Saville}}
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Category:19th-century American writers
Category:19th-century American women writers
Category:19th-century pseudonymous writers
Category:People from Honeoye, New York
Category:Writers from New York (state)
Category:Pseudonymous women writers
Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from A Woman of the Century