Rosetta Luce Gilchrist
{{short description|American physician, writer}}
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| birth_name = Rosetta Luce
| birth_date = April 11, 1850
| birth_place = Kingsville, Ashtabula County, Ohio, U.S.
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Rosetta Luce Gilchrist ({{nee}}, Luce; April 11, 1850{{spaced ndash}}February 17, 1921) was an American physician, author, novelist, poet, and correspondent. She served as president of the Ashtabula Equal Rights Club.
Early life and education
Rosetta Luce was born in Kingsville, Ashtabula County, Ohio, April 11, 1850.{{cite web |title=Rosetta Luce 11 April 1850 – 17 February 1921 • L4ZK-HFK |url=https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L4ZK-HFK |website=ident.familysearch.org |access-date=11 October 2022}} In youth, she was a student in the Kingsville, or Rexville, academy. She graduated from Oberlin College in 1870.{{sfn|Oberlin College|1868|p=48}} In 1890, she graduated from the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College.{{sfn|Willard|Livermore|1893|p=319}}{{sfn|The Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College|1900|p=21}}
Career
Gilchrist was a teacher in the Cleveland public schools. After graduating from medical school, she gained a lucrative practice in the medical profession.
Gilchrist also had a successful literary career. Her early work Apples of Sodom was a piece of anti-Mormon fiction.{{cite book |last1=Hunter |first1=J. Michael |title=Mormons and Popular Culture: The Global Influence of an American Phenomenon [2 volumes]: The Global Influence of an American Phenomenon |date=5 December 2012 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-0-313-39168-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZD8vhVCx03wC&pg=PT556 |access-date=29 January 2022 |language=en}} Other publications included Margaret's Sacrifice, Thistledew Papers, and numerous poems.{{sfn|Willard|Livermore|1893|p=319}} Gilchrist served as a correspondent for various newspapers.{{cite book |last1=Derr |first1=Jill Mulvay |last2=Cannon |first2=Janath Russell |last3=Beecher |first3=Maureen Ursenbach |title=Women of Covenant: The Story of Relief Society |date=1992 |publisher=Deseret Book Company |isbn=978-0-87579-593-5 |page=140 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YZHZAAAAMAAJ |access-date=29 January 2022 |language=en}} She was a member of the Woman's National Press Association and the Cleveland Woman's Press Association and president of the Ashtabula Equal Rights Club.{{sfn|Willard|Livermore|1893|p=319}}
Private life and death
Gilchrist was also a self-taught oil painter.{{sfn|Willard|Livermore|1893|p=319}} She had a family of three children,{{sfn|Willard|Livermore|1893|p=319}} including a daughter, Jessamine.{{cite book |last1=Gilchrist |first1=Rosetta Luce |title=Tibby: A Novel Dealing with Psychic Forces and Telepathy |date=1904 |publisher=Neale Publishing Company |page=5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ld1EAQAAMAAJ |access-date=29 January 2022 |language=en}} {{PD-notice}}
Selected works
- Apples of Sodom, A Story of Mormon Life., 1883
- Tibby: A Novel Dealing with Psychic Forces and Telepathy, 1904
- Margaret's Sacrifice
- Thistledew Papers
References
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=Bibliography=
- {{Source-attribution| {{cite book|author=The Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College|title=The Cleveland Homeopathic Reporter|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I2pYAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA10-PA21|edition=Public domain|volume=1-2|year=1900|publisher=The Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College}} }}
- {{Source-attribution| {{cite book|author=Oberlin College|title=Catalogue of Oberlin College for the Year ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1YLOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA48|edition=Public domain|year=1868|publisher=Oberlin College}} }}
- {{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://books.google.com/books?id=zXEEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA319|edition=Public domain|year=1893|publisher=Moulton|isbn=9780722217139}} }}
External links
- {{wikisource-inline|Woman of the Century/Rosetta Luce Gilchrist}}
- {{Internet Archive author |sname=Rosetta Luce Gilchrist}}
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Category:19th-century American women writers
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Category:19th-century American women physicians
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