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Agnes Repplier

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Agnes Repplier
Rođenje (1858-04-01) 1. april 1858.
Philadelphia, SAD
Smrt15. novembar 1950(1950-11-15) (92 godine)
SAD

Agnes Repplier (1. april 1858, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania15. novembar 1950), američka književnica.

Rođena je u Philadelphiji 1855. godine,[1] francuskog i njemačkog porijekla,[2] i obrazovala se u Samostanu Presvetog Srca, Eden Hall u Torresdaleu, Philadelphia, a kasnije u školi Agnes Irwin. Repplier je navodno izbačena iz dvije škole zbog "nezavisnog ponašanja" i bila je nepismena do desete godine.[1] Mentorstvo u pisanju dobila je od časne sestre Mary Pauline Finn, koja je i sama bila poznata spisateljica, a koja je objavljivala knjige, poeziju i drame pod pseudonimom MS Pine.[3]

  • Books and Men (1888)
  • Points of View (1891)
  • Essays in Miniature (1892)
  • Essays in Idleness (1893)
  • In the Dozy Hours (1894)
  • Varia (1897)
  • Philadelphia: The Place and the People (1898)
  • The Fireside Sphinx (1901)
  • Compromises (1904)
  • In Our Convent Days (1905)
  • A Happy Half Century (1908)
  • Americans and Others (1912)
  • The Cat (1912)
  • Counter Currents (1915)
  • Points of Friction (1920)
  • Under Dispute (1924)
  • To Think of Tea! (1931)
  • Times and Tendencies (1931)
  • In Pursuit of Laughter (1936)
  • Eight Decades (1937)

Reference

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  1. 1 2 Nancy A. Walker, Nancy Nash-Cummings, Zita Dresner. Redressing the balance: American women's literary humor from Colonial times to the 1980s. University Press of Mississippi, 1988 p.207
  2. Paul R. Messbarger (1974). "Repplier, Agnes". Dictionary of American Biography. Supplement Four 1946-1950. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
  3. "Sister Paulina's Rites are Held at Georgetown". The Washington Post. March 2, 1935.

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