Josephine Daskam Bacon

Josephine Dodge Daskam was born on February 17, 1876, in Stamford, Connecticut, to Anne (Loring) and Horace Sawyer Daskam.

Bacon graduated from Smith College in 1898. 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."{{cite book|last=Daskam|first=Josephine Dodge|title=Smith College Stories|year=1900|publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons|location=New York|url=https://archive.org/details/smithcollegestories00bacorich}}

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She 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.{{cite news|title=Josephine Daskam "Poems"|year=1903|newspaper=Newspaper unknown; clipping filed with the New York Public Library Archives|location=New York Public Library Archives; Historical and Public Figures Collection}} She was published under the name "Josephine Daskam".{{Cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/bacon-josephine-dodge-1876-1961|title=Bacon, Josephine Dodge (1876–1961) | Encyclopedia.com|website=www.encyclopedia.com}}

She also wrote on women's issues and women's roles as well.{{cite web|url=http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/sophiasmith/mnsss211.html|title=Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon Papers, 1904-1934 Finding Aid|website=asteria.fivecolleges.edu|access-date=2009-08-01|archive-date=2010-06-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100626012701/http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/sophiasmith/mnsss211.html|url-status=dead}} She was a pioneer in the Girl Scouts movement and compiled the guidebook{{cite web|url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/28490/28490-h/28490-h.htm|title=The Project Gutenberg eBook of Scouting for Girls, edited by Josephine Daskam Bacon.|website=www.gutenberg.org}} used by that organization.{{cite book|last=Lundle|first=Catherine A.|title=Restless Spirits: Ghost Stories by American Women, 1872-1926|year=1996|publisher=University of Massachusetts Press|isbn=9781558490567|page=73|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tz5JXML3R14C&q=Josephine+Dodge+Daskam++Bacon+girls+scouts&pg=PA73}}

In 1903, Josephine Daskam wed Selden Bacon, a lawyer. The couple had three children: Anne, Deborah, and Selden Jr.

Josephine Daskam Bacon died in 1961, aged 85. She was interred in All Souls Onteora Park Church Cemetery, Hunter, Greene County, New York.

{{cite web|url=https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL2321070A/Josephine_Dodge_Daskam_Bacon|title=Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon|website=Open Library}}

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• Smith College Stories (1900)
• Sister's Vocation, and Other Girls' Storieshttps://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AMy_maiden_effort%3B_being_the_personal_confessions_of_well-known_American_authors_as_to_their_literary_beginnings_(IA_mymaideneffort00burgrich).pdf&page=11 (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)

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