Frances Elizabeth Fryatt
Frances Elizabeth Fryatt | |
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Born | DOB unknown |
Died | DOD unknown |
Pen name | F. E. Fryatt |
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Language | English |
Nationality | American |
Subject | applied arts |
Frances Elizabeth Fryatt (pen name, F. E. Fryatt) was an American author and specialist in household applied arts. She served as editor-in-chief of The Lady's World after its establishment in 1886, and was twice elected president of the Ladies' Art Association of New York.
Early life
Frances Elizabeth Fryatt was born in New York City, but spent her girlhood in the countryside. In her childhood, she wrote for pleasure and chiefly in verse, taking up literature as a life-work on the death of her father, Horatio N. Fryatt, who had written articles on science, law and finance during the intervals of his busy life as a New York merchant. After the death of her father, the family moved to the city.
Career
Fryatt commenced to write for New York newspapers, the New-York Evening Post, the
In 1881, she began writing articles for The Art Interchange on art applied to the house, including
After retiring to a suburb of Brooklyn, on account of failing health, she built the cottage, "Fairhope". There, she had her private editorial office and library, and she kept up her interest in various humanitarian movements. In 1891, Fryatt was elected president of the Ladies' Art Association of New York, and she was re-elected in May, 1892. [3]
Selected works
- "The Children's Hour : A Novel Art-School", in Some Curious Schools
References
- ^ a b Willard & Livermore 1893, p. 306.
- ^ Okker 2008, p. 187.
- ^ a b Willard & Livermore 1893, p. 307.
Attribution
- This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life (Public domain ed.). Moulton. p. 306.
Bibliography
- ISBN 978-0-8203-3249-9.
External links
- Works related to Woman of the Century/Frances Elizabeth Fryatt at Wikisource
- Works by or about Frances Elizabeth Fryatt at Internet Archive