H. B. Goodwin
{{short description|American novelist}}
{{Infobox writer
| name = Hannah Elizabeth Bradbury Goodwin Talcott
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| pseudonym = {{hlist|"H. B."|"H. E. B"|"H. B. G."|"Mrs. H. B. Goodwin"|"Mrs. Goodwin-Talcott"}}
| birth_name = Hannah Elizabeth Bradbury
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1827|03|16}}
| birth_place = Chesterville, Maine, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1893|06|01|1827|03|16}}
| death_place = Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
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| education = Farmington Academy
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| notableworks = Dorothy Gray
| spouse = {{hlist|{{marriage|George Clinton Goodwin|1857|1869|end=died}}|{{marriage|Daniel Smith Talcott|1874}}}}
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Hannah Elizabeth Bradbury Goodwin Talcott ({{nee}}, Bradbury; after first marriage, Goodwin; after second marriage, Talcott; March 3, 1827 – June 1, 1893) was an American novelist, poet and educator from Maine who resided in Boston for many years. She wrote under various pen names, including H. B., H. E. B., H. B. G., Mrs. H. B. Goodwin, and Mrs. Goodwin-Talcott.
Early life and education
Hannah Elizabeth Bradbury was born March 3, 1827, in Chesterville, Maine. Her parents were Benjamin and Elizabeth (Davolle) Bradbury.{{cite book |editor-last=Cutter |editor-first=William Richard |title=Memorial Encyclopedia of the State of Massachusetts |date=1917 |publisher=American Historical Society |location=Boston |page=10 |url=https://archive.org/details/memorialencyclop00cutt/page/10/mode/2up}} Her school life was spent mainly in Farmington Academy.{{sfn|Willard|1893|p=325}}
Career
Before her marriage, she wrote many short stories and sketches, which were published in magazines and papers under her initials, "H. B." or "H. E. B". She worked as a teacher of girls in Bangor, Maine, and afterward served as principal of the Charlestown Female Seminary in Boston.
On July 15, 1857, she married George Clinton Goodwin, a Boston drug manufacturer.{{cite journal |title=Goodwin and Allied Families |journal=Americana |first=E. C.|last=Finley|date=1927 |volume=21 |issue=1 |pages=55–68 |url=https://archive.org/details/americana21amer/page/398/mode/2up?q=%22George+Clinton+Goodwin%22 |publisher=American Historical Society}}{{cite book |editor1-last=Griffith |editor1-first=George Bancroft |title=The Poets of Maine: A Collection of Specimen Poems from Over Four Hundred Verse-Makers of the Pine-Tree State |date=1888 |publisher=Elwell, Pickard & Company |location=Portland |pages=523–526 |chapter=HANNAH ELIZABETH BRADBURY GOODWIN. |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/poetsofmaingeorg00grifrich/page/522/mode/2up}} After this marriage, she wrote three novels under the pen name, "H. B. G." Her first novel, Madge (New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1863),{{cite book |last1=Goodwin |first1=Hannah Bradbury |title=Madge; Or, Night and Morning |date=1863 |publisher=D. Appleton |url=https://archive.org/details/madgeornightandm00goodiala |access-date=23 January 2022 |language=en}} {{PD-notice}} was favorably received. Goodwin regarded it as the least worthy of her books. Her second was, Roger Deane's work (Boston, Graves and Young, 1863).{{cite book |last1=Goodwin |first1=Hannah Bradbury |title=Roger Deane's Work |date=1863 |publisher=Graves and Young |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hJknAAAAMAAJ |access-date=23 January 2022 |language=en}} {{PD-notice}} The third, Sherbrooke (New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1866),{{cite book |last1=Goodwin |first1=Hannah Bradbury |title=Sherbrooke |date=1866 |publisher=D. Appleton |url=https://archive.org/details/sherbrooke00goodiala |access-date=23 January 2022 |language=en}} {{PD-notice}} was a story of New England life. The success of that story was instantaneous.{{sfn|Willard|1893|p=325}}
Widowed in 1869, her next two novels appeared under the name, "Mrs. H. B. Goodwin". Dr. Howell's Family (Boston, Lee and Shepard, 1869),{{cite book |last1=Goodwin |first1=Hannah Bradbury |title=Dr. Howell's Family |date=1869 |publisher=Lee & Shepard |url=https://archive.org/details/drhowellsfamily00goodiala |access-date=23 January 2022 |language=en}} {{PD-notice}} was written during months of great physical pain. Many readers regarded it as the author's strongest work. After its publication, Goodwin was for several years an invalid and only wrote short stories, sketches, and letters from Europe to religious newspapers.{{sfn|Willard|1893|p=325}} A spray from Lucerne appeared in 1873.{{cite book |last1=Goodwin |first1=Hannah Bradbury |title=A Spray from Lucerne |date=1873 |publisher=Printed at the Riverside Press |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jCOMHAAACAAJ&q=%22A+spray+from+Lucerne%22+goodwin |access-date=23 January 2022 |language=en}} {{PD-notice}}
In Boston, on July 9, 1874, she married Professor Daniel Smith Talcott, D.D., of Bangor, Maine.{{cite news |title=MARRIAGES. TALCOTT-GOODWIN. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/428216477/?terms=Hannah%20Elizabeth%20Bradbury%20goodwin%20talcott&match=1 |access-date=23 January 2022 |work=The Boston Globe |via=Newspapers.com |date=14 July 1874 |page=7 |language=en}} {{PD-notice}}{{cite web |title=Daniel S. Talcott. Marriage • Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910, 1921-1924 |url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHQM-FMQ |website=familysearch.org |access-date=23 January 2022 |date=9 July 1874}} Using the name, "Mrs. Goodwin-Talcott", her next work was The Fortunes of Miss Follen (New York, D. Appleton & Company, 1876).{{cite book |last1=Goodwin |first1=Hannah Bradbury |title=The Fortunes of Miss Follen |date=1876 |publisher=D. Appleton and Company |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-y0BAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1 |access-date=23 January 2022 |language=en}} {{PD-notice}} The book received a damning review,{{cite news |title=NEW PUBLICATIONS |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1876/06/19/80629566.html?pageNumber=3 |access-date=21 October 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=19 June 1876 |language=en}} {{Source-attribution}} but she republished the book five years later as Christine's fortune (A. Williams, 1881),{{cite book |last1=Goodwin |first1=Mrs H. B. |title=Christine's fortune |date=1881 |publisher=A. Williams |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4scSnQEACAAJ |access-date=23 January 2022 |language=en}} {{PD-notice}}{{cite book |author1=Detroit Public Library |title=Finding List of English and French Prose Fiction |date=1905 |publisher=Cadillac printing Company |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s7IZAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA149 |access-date=23 January 2022 |language=en |chapter=ALCOTT, MRS. HERSEY BRADFORD GOODWIN. T143f5}} {{PD-notice}} a picture of German life, returning to the pen name, "Mrs. H. B. Goodwin". One Among Many (Boston, Cupples, Upham and Company, 1884){{cite book |last1=Goodwin |first1=Hannah Bradbury |title=One Among Many |date=1884 |publisher=Cupples, Upham |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5uAaAAAAYAAJ |access-date=23 January 2022 |language=en}} {{PD-notice}} gave new evidence of her ability to represent real life. Elizabeth and the roses : a legend of Hungary (Boston, Cupples, Upham and Company, 1886) was in the poetic genre.{{cite book |editor1-last=Boston Public Library |title=Monthly Bulletin of Books Added to the Public Library of the City of Boston |date=1898 |publisher=The Trustees |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7zw-AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA161 |access-date=23 January 2022 |language=en |chapter=Goodwin, Hannah Elizabeth Bradbury. 4399a. 182}} Our Party of Four (Boston, Cupples and Hurd, 1887),{{cite book |last1=Goodwin |first1=Hannah Bradbury |title=Our Party of Four: A Story of Travel |date=1887 |publisher=Cupples and Hurd |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=euAaAAAAYAAJ |access-date=23 January 2022 |language=en}} {{PD-notice}} describes a tour in Spain. Perhaps to Dorothy Gray (Boston; Damrell & Upsham, 1891){{cite book |last1=Goodwin |first1=Hannah Bradbury |title=Dorothy Gray: An Indian Summer Idyl |date=1891 |publisher=Damrell & Upham |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VANFAQAAMAAJ |access-date=23 January 2022 |language=en}} {{PD-notice}} the highest praise came from critics and literary friends. She also compiled a volume of essays on art and history.{{sfn|Willard|1893|p=325}}
Later life
For the last 16 years of her life, she was strongly associated with the educational work of Wellesley College. She was an active member of its board of trustees and of its executive committee. She also wrote and read to the students of Wellesley many essays on art, the studies for which were made in the great art centers of Europe, where she traveled in England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain.{{sfn|Willard|1893|p=325}}
She died in Boston on June 1, 1893.{{cite book |title=Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1893|date=1894 |publisher=D. Appleton and Company |location=New York |page=554 |url=https://archive.org/details/trent_0116401936053_18/page/554/mode/2up}}
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Works
=As H. B. G.=
- 1863, Madge; or, Night and morning ([https://archive.org/details/madgeornightandm00goodiala text])
- 1863, Roger Deane's work ([https://books.google.com/books?id=hJknAAAAMAAJ text])
- 1866, Sherbrooke ([https://archive.org/details/sherbrooke00goodiala text])
=As Mrs. H. B. Goodwin=
- 1869, Dr. Howell's family ([https://archive.org/details/drhowellsfamily00goodiala text])
- 1873, A spray from Lucerne
- 1881, Christine's fortune
- 1884, One Among Many ([https://books.google.com/books?id=5uAaAAAAYAAJ text])
- 1886, Elizabeth and the roses : a legend of Hungary (poetry)
- 1887, Our party of four : a story of travel
- 1891, Dorothy Gray : an Indian Summer idyl ([https://books.google.com/books?id=VANFAQAAMAAJ text])
=As Mrs. Goodwin-Talcott=
- 1876, The Fortunes of Miss Follen ([https://books.google.com/books?id=-y0BAAAAYAAJ text])
Gallery
Dr. Howell's family (IA drhowellsfamily00goodiala).pdf|Dr. Howell's family
Madge; or, Night and morning (IA cu31924022184075).pdf|Madge; or, Night and morning
Sherbrooke (IA sherbrookex00good).pdf|Sherbrooke
The Fortunes of Miss Follen (1876).png|The Fortunes of Miss Follen
References
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=Bibliography=
- {{cite book|author=Wellesley College|title=The Wellesley College Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QrMAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA468|edition=Public domain|year=1893}}
- {{Source-attribution| {{cite book|last=Willard|first=Frances Elizabeth|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/n329 325]|edition=Public domain|year=1893|publisher=Moulton}} }}
External links
- {{wikisource-inline|Woman of the Century/Mrs. H. B. Goodwin}}
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