Julie M. Lippmann
American writer
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Julie Mathilde Lippmann (June 27, 1864[1] – 1952) was a writer, literary critic, women's suffrage supporter, and political writer.[2] She wrote novels, plays, poetry, literary criticism, and U.S. propaganda during World War I. Her novel Martha By-the-Day was adapted on stage in 1914.[3] The 1919 film The Hoodlum was based on her novel Burkeses Amy.
Lippmann was born in Brooklyn, New York. She was educated at private schools in Brooklyn and by a governess. She traveled extensively.[4]
She was friends with Louisa May Alcott, Charles Dudley Warner, William Gillette, and Mark Twain.[5][2]
Her stories were published in various magazines.[6] She wrote the lyrics to the song "My Lady Jacqueminot".[2] Lippmann's poems included "If We but Knew", published in 1889,[7] and "Love and Life".[8]
After her death in 1952, her niece, artist and poet Julie Morrow DeForest, wrote the memoir "Auntie": Reminiscences of Julie M. Lippman.[5][9]
Bibliography
- Dearie, Dot and the Dog (1903), illustrated by Margaret F. Winner[10]
- Sweet P's (1905)[5]
- Martha By-the-Day (1912),[11] her most well known work; she adapted it into a successful play[5][2]
- Making Over Martha (1913)
- Burkeses Amy (1914)
- Martha and Cupid (1914)
- Amy and the Burkeses (1915)
- Everyday Girls[4]
- The Interlopers (1917)
- The Mannequin (1917)
- Flexible Ferdinand (1919)[11]
- Wildfire
- Dorothy Day
- Jack o' Dreams
Plays
- Cousin Faithful (1908)
- The Facts in the Case (1912)
- A Fool and His Money (1913)[12]
- Martha By-the-Day (1914)
