Talk:Frances Fuller Victor

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Did you know... that Frances Fuller Victor, an influential writer of history and fiction, was initially uncredited for her major contributions to historian Hubert Howe Bancroft's monumental work, The History of the West?

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Video on CSPAN, excerpt from biography -- worth watching: https://www.c-span.org/video/?c2914432/clip-a-bit-blue-frances-fuller-victor -Pete Forsyth (talk) 00:59, 8 February 2018 (UTC)Reply

Criticism edit

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Samuel A. Clarke expressed surprise that she would republish Joe Meek's tales as unvarnished truth: https://books.google.com/books?id=teRYAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA597&dq=luelling&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwijk6bGoZ3ZAhVS4WMKHbXwDcEQ6AEIOjAD#v=onepage&q&f=false -Pete Forsyth (talk) 08:11, 11 February 2018 (UTC)Reply

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Early bio in husband's poetry book: [1]
Celebrated as Oregon's historian as early as 1865: Hailed as "Our Lady Historian" early in her career in Oregon: Sacramento Daily Union: Letter from Oregon. 1865.
Among SF's "female writers" mentioned in Daily Alta California 1886
River of the West, reviewed
sold property in St. Helens in 1892
re: McLoughlin, Minto, OHS origins of L&C Centennial
Praised in Oakland Times / San Francisco Call, 1895
Moved to SF in 1896; president, Pacific Coast Womans Press Association
Books and Bookmakers, review of Bret Harte, 1896
compared favorably with Bancroft
her critique of Nixon, 1895
historiography of whitman: [2]
History vs. the Whitman Saved OR story (1904)
Chosen as delegate 1894 States Rights Advocate Albany: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84022644/1894-05-04/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=1877&index=7&rows=20&words=Frances+Fuller+Victor&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=Oregon&date2=1963&proxtext=%22Frances+Fuller+Victor%22&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1

Short bio:

DONNA CASELLA KERN: American Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide from Colonial Times to the Present: A Critical Reference Guide from Colonial Times to the Present. Ed. Taryn Benbow-Pfalzgraf. Vol. 4. 2nd ed. Detroit, MI: St. James Press, 2000. p175-176. COPYRIGHT 2000, St. James Press

Origin of "Florence Fane" name? edit

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The book Paul Fane... by her (mentor? editor?) Nathaniel Parker Willis was set largely in Florence: [3] -Pete Forsyth (talk) 00:16, 19 May 2019 (UTC)Reply

Good article free online edit

A Lovely but Unpredictable River by Sheri Bartlett Brown, OHQ vol. 112 no. 1

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