Mary Sifton Pepper (born about 1862; died 1908) was an American journalist and translator, author of Maids and Matrons of New France (1901), an early work in Canadian women's history.
Mary Sifton Pepper | |
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| Born | c. 1862 |
| Died | 1908 |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, translator |
| Notable work | Maids and Matrons of New France |
Early life edit
Pepper was the daughter of George Whitfield Pepper and Christine Lindsay Pepper. Her parents were both born in Ireland; her father, who served as a chaplain in the American Civil War,[1][2] was a clergyman, writer, and diplomat.[3][4] She lived in Milan from 1891 to 1895,[5] and traveled in Europe while her father was based there.[6]
Mary Sifton Pepper graduated from the College of Wooster in Ohio, in 1883.[6][7] Her brother Charles M. Pepper[8] and her sisters Caroline Lipton Pepper[9] and Lena Lindsay Pepper were also writers.[5]
Career edit
In the 1890s Pepper was a translator of French and Italian on the 73-volume edition of The Jesuit Relations,[10] documents related to the work of European Jesuit missionaries in North America.[6] From her experience on that project, she wrote Maids and Matrons of New France (1901),[11] an early work in Canadian women's history.[12][13] Her book was praised as "a volume which is not only peculiarly absorbing but which in the main covers unbroken ground."[14]
As a journalist, she wrote a profile of Queen Margherita of Italy for Godey's Magazine in 1896.[15] She also wrote a biographical article on Italian poet Giosuè Carducci.[16]
Personal life edit
Pepper lived in Cleveland, Ohio.[5] She died in 1908.[12]
References edit
- ^ The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. J.T. White. 1906. p. 204.
- ^ Pepper, George Whitfield (1868). Ireland ... Liberty springs from her martyr's blood. Boston: Patrick Donahoe. hdl:2027/loc.ark:/13960/t0ms47g4x.
- ^ Minutes of the ... Annual Session of the North Ohio Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Cleveland Printing & Publishing Company. 1889. pp. 76–78.
- ^ "Rev. George W. Pepper Died in Cleveland". The San Francisco Call. 1899-08-07. p. 2. Retrieved 2020-05-25 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c "Mary Sifton Pepper". Book News. 20: 573. March 1902.
- ^ a b c "Highways and Byways". The Chautauquan. 32: 13–14. October 1900.
- ^ "Alumni Banquet". The Wooster Voice. June 18, 1903. Retrieved May 24, 2020.
- ^ Who's who in the Nation's Capital. Consolidated Publishing Company. 1921. p. 305.
- ^ "Death of a Bright Lady Journalist". The Summit County Beacon. 1890-05-28. p. 7. Retrieved 2020-05-25 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Thwaites, Reuben Gold (1897). The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the Jesuit Missionaries in New France, 1610-1791; the Original French, Latin, and Italian Texts, with English Translations and Notes; Illustrated by Portraits, Maps, and Facsimiles. Burrows brothers Company.
- ^ Pepper, Mary Sifton (1901). Maids and matrons of New France. Robarts - University of Toronto. Boston : Little, Brown.
- ^ a b Dagg, Anne Innis (2006-01-01). The Feminine Gaze: A Canadian Compendium of Non-Fiction Women Authors and Their Books, 1836-1945. Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. p. 238. ISBN 978-0-88920-845-2.
- ^ Coates, Colin MacMillan; Morgan, Cecilia Louise (2002-01-01). Heroines and History: Representations of Madeleine de Verchères and Laura Secord. University of Toronto Press. p. 62. ISBN 978-0-8020-8330-2.
- ^ Gilder, Jeannette Leonard; Gilder, Joseph Benson (Christmas 1901). "The Book Buyers' Guide". The Critic. 39: 580.
- ^ Pepper, Mary Sifton (May 1896). "Queen Margherita at Monza". Godey's Magazine. 132: 525–529.
- ^ Shaw, Albert (March 1897). "Other Articles". Review of Reviews. 15: 363.
