Lucy Hamilton Hooper

Lucy Hamilton Hooper
"A Woman of the Century"
Born	Lucy Hamilton Jones January 20, 1835 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died	August 31, 1893(1893-08-31) (aged 58) Paris, France
Resting place	Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia
Occupation	poet, journalist, editor, playwright
Language	English
Nationality	American
Spouse	Robert E. Hooper ​ (m. 1854)​
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Lucy Hamilton Hooper (née, Jones; January 20, 1835 – August 31, 1893) was an American poet, journalist, editor, playwright, and translator. Soon after her marriage in 1854, a commercial crisis ruined her husband's business and she was compelled to start writing professionally. She contributed regularly to newspapers and magazines, and was associate editor of Our Daily Fare, issued in connection with the fair held by the U.S. Sanitary Commission in Philadelphia in 1864, and to which she presented the first hundred copies of a small collection of her poems published in that year. She was associate editor of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine from its establishment in 1868 until 1870, when she made her first trip to Europe.^[1]

She was the author of, Poems with Translations from the German of Geibel and Others (1864); Poems (1871); The Nabob, translated from the French of Alphonse Daudet by special agreement with Daudet (1878); Under the Tricolor; or the American Colony in Paris, novel (1880); The Tsar's Window, novel (1881). She also wrote two plays: Helen's inheritance, which was produced at the Theatre d'Application, Paris, in 1888, at the Madison Square Theatre, New York, in 1889, and toured the United States for several seasons under the title Inherited; and Her Living Image, in collaboration with a French dramatist. ^[1]