Laura Spencer Portor Pope
Laura Spencer Portor Pope (4 February 1872 – 1957) was an American journalist and author of short stories and several books. She is known as the co-author with Dorothy Giles of two science fiction novels, The valley of creeping men (1930) and Chattering gods (1931), both of which appeared under the pseudonym "Rayburn Crawley."[http://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/crawley_rayburn Authors : Crawley, Rayburn : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia, 28 October 2014]
Biographical facts
Laura Spencer Portor married Francis Pope, but she continued to use the name "Laura Spencer Portor" for all her professional publications except the two science novels which she co-authored. She published articles and short stories in Woman's Home Companion, Harper's Magazine, The Outlook, The Dial and several other magazines.{{cite journal|title=Portor, Laura Spencer (Mrs Francis Pope)|journal=Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature|year=1922|page=501|url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015035835191;view=1up;seq=517}}
Selected publications
- {{cite book|title=Shakespeare pamphlets|year=1900}}; lettering and decorations by Joan D. Manning
- with Katharine Pyle: {{cite book|title=Theodora|year=1907}}; illustrated from drawings by William A. McCullough
- {{cite book|title=Greatest books in the world; interpretive studies. With lists of collateral reading helpful to the study of great literature|year=1913|url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008895532|publisher=Houghton Mifflin}}; {{cite book|title=2nd edition|year=1917|url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100537450|publisher=Chautauqua Press}}
- {{cite book|title=Genevieve; a story of French school days|year=1914|url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100563516|publisher=E.P. Dutton & company|series=Little schoolmate series}}
- {{cite book|title=Story of little angels|year=1917|url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000205900|publisher=Harper & brothers}}
- {{cite book|title=Adventures in indigence|year=1918|url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009776316|publisher=The Atlantic monthly press}}
- {{cite magazine|title=On Living Next to James Huneker|magazine=Scribner's Magazine|year=1922|volume=71|pages=303–308|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QAcwAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA303}}
- {{cite book|title=Little long-ago|year=1927}}
- with Alida Conover as illustrator: {{cite book|title=New York, the giant city; an introduction to New York|year=1939}}; {{cite book|title=2nd edition|year=1953}}
References
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Category:19th-century American women journalists
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