Martha Tracy Owler

B&W portrait photo of a middle-aged woman with her hair in an up-do wearing a high-collared dark jacket.
Portrait from A Woman of the Century
BornMartha Ruth Tracy
1852
Port Deposit, Maryland, U.S.
DiedOctober 3, 1916
New York City, New York, U.S.
Resting placeBeverly, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupationjournalist, correspondent
Subject
  • travel correspondence
  • art criticism
Spouse
Charles William Owler
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(m. 1876)​
Relatives

Martha Tracy Owler (1852 – October 3, 1916) was an American journalist and writer.[1][2] During 1891–95, she was foreign correspondent for the Boston Herald.[2] Her letters to the Herald from Europe were in great demand, as were her art sketches for another Boston publication, written over a pen name. She had an intense love of beautiful art, and although she never posed as an art critic, her articles were quoted from and copied in New York and other papers as art criticisms. Scholars said that her language was like that of Washington Irving.[3]

  1. ^ Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). "OWLER, Mrs. Martha Tracy". A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life. Charles Wells Moulton. pp. 553–54. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. ^ a b "Obituary Notes". Fourth Estate: A Weekly Newspaper for Publishers, Advertisers, Advertising Agents and Allied Interests. Fourth Estate Publishing Company. 1916. p. 34. Retrieved 20 November 2023. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference TheStandardUnion1891 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).