Emelie Tracy Swett | |
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| Born | Emelie Tracy Young Swett March 9, 1863 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Died | April 21, 1892 (aged 29) San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Resting place | Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Author, editor |
| Alma mater | Girls' High School, San Francisco |
| Genre | poetry, prose, drama, translation |
| Spouse |
John W. Parkhurst (m. 1889) |
Emelie Tracy Young Swett (after marriage, Parkhurst; March 9, 1863 – April 21, 1892) was an American author, editor, poet and translator. She wrote both prose and verse, and in her literary work was often employed by publishers to translate French and German articles and books. She was at one time employed as the private secretary of a publishing house, and in this capacity she developed executive abilities. In 1889, she married John W. Parkhurst, an employee in the Bank of California.[1] Swett contributed largely to the magazines and papers of the Pacific Coast. Her literary work included translations from Greek, French and German and some finished poems of high merit. She dramatized Helen Hunt Jackson's novel Ramona.[2] She founded the Pacific Coast Women's Press Association. She supported suffrage.[3] For a year before her death, at the age of 29, she was assistant editor of the Californian Illustrated Magazine.[1] Swett died in 1892.
- ^ a b Swett 1911, p. 252-53.
- ^ Logan 1912, p. 872.
- ^ Gullett 2000, p. 58.