Lucia Runkle
{{Short description|American magazine contributor}}
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| othername = Lucia Gilbert Runkle
| birth_name = Lucia Gilbert
| birth_date = August 20, 1844
| birth_place = North Brookfield, Massachusetts
| death_date = 1922
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| occupation = Magazine contributor
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| spouse = Cornelius Runkle
| children = Bertha Runkle
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Lucia Isabella Runkle (née Gilbert; August 20, 1844 – 1922), was an editorial writer and contributor to the New York Tribune and Harper's.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ArkACwAAQBAJ&pg=PA23|title=The Indian Reform Letters of Helen Hunt Jackson, 1879–1885|first=Helen Hunt|last=Jackson|date=October 15, 2015|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|isbn=9780806153735|via=Google Books}} She was one of the first women editorialists at a major American newspaper.{{Cite book|last=Temple|first=Wayne C.|date=February 1, 2019|title=Lincoln's Confidant: The Life of Noah Brooks|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kSaJDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT469|publisher=University of Illinois Press|isbn=9780252050916|via=Google Books}}
Biography
Runkle was born in North Brookfield, Massachusetts and educated in Fall River and Worcester, Massachusetts. She moved to New York City and for many years she was an editorial writer and contributor to the New-York Tribune, in which she published a series of articles on cooking, treated from an artistic standpoint. She also wrote frequently for other journals and for magazines{{cite Appletons'|wstitle= Runkle, John Daniel |volume = V |page = 348 |short= 1}} including the Christian Union, later The Outlook. For ten years, Runkle was the literary adviser of Harper & Brothers, her work including French and German manuscripts and books, as well as English. In 1893, she undertook, with Charles Dudley Warner and others, the enormous labor which is represented in the thirty volumes of Library of the World's Best Literature.Sunset, Volume 14 (1905)Warner et al. (1897) Library of the World's Best Literature
She was quoted in support of The Woman's Advocate publication.{{Cite web|url=http://womenwriters.digitalscholarship.emory.edu/advocacy/content.php?level=div&id=advocate1_129&document=advocate1|title=EWWRP : Women's Advocacy Collection : The Woman's Advocate, Volume 1 : Letters 0|website=womenwriters.digitalscholarship.emory.edu}} She corresponded with Helen Hunt Jackson.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y8cGGFpBnBEC&pg=PA382|title=Women's Letters: America from the Revolutionary War to the Present|first1=Lisa|last1=Grunwald|first2=Stephen J.|last2=Adler|date=January 21, 2009|publisher=Random House Publishing Group|isbn=9780307493330|via=Google Books}}
Personal life
In the early 1860s, she had an affair with future president James Garfield, who ended the affair after his wife learned of it.{{Cite web |title=James A. Garfield (U.S. National Park Service) |url=https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/james-a-garfield.htm |access-date=2023-02-03 |website=www.nps.gov |language=en}}{{Cite news |last=Baker |first=Kevin |date=2011-09-30 |title=The Doctors Who Killed a President |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/02/books/review/destiny-of-the-republic-by-candice-millard-book-review.html |access-date=2023-02-03 |issn=0362-4331}}
In 1862, she married a Mr. Calhoun. Her second marriage, in 1869, was to Cornelius Runkle, a customs official and lawyer for the New-York Tribune. Their daughter Bertha Runkle authored The Helmet of Navarre and four other novels.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hnIEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA808|title=The Part Taken by Women in American History|first=Mrs John A.|last=Logan|date=July 13, 1912|publisher=Perry-Nalle Publishing Company|via=Google Books}}
Selected works
- Modern Women and What is Said of Them: A Reprint of a Series of Articles in the Saturday Review, by E. Lynn Linton, J. S. Redfield, New York (1868), contributor{{Cite web|url=https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Calhoun,+Lucia+Gilbert|title=Lucia Gilbert Calhoun | The Online Books Page|website=onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu}}
- Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern, New York, R. S. Peale and J. A. Hill, (c1896-97), contributor
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Category:People from North Brookfield, Massachusetts
Category:19th-century American journalists
Category:19th-century American women journalists