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DeutschEmily Vielé Strother
Emily Vielé Strother (March 18, 1866 – August 24, 1959)[1][2] was an American novelist.
Biography
[edit]She was born Emily Vielé in New York, the daughter of Teresa (Griffin) Viele (author of a memoir of army life, Following the Drum) and Egbert Ludovicus Viele, a Union Army officer and later U.S. Representative from New York. Her paternal grandfather John L. Viele was a New York politician, and her brothers Francis Vielé-Griffin and Herman Knickerbocker Vielé were both writers.[3]: 18–19 [4][1] Her parents initially settled in Southold, Long Island, but later moved to Ashford Hill.[3]: 19 In 1870, Emily's parents separated (they subsequently divorced), and her mother moved to Paris with Emily and Francis.[3]: 20
She is best known for her autobiographical novel Eve Dorre: The Story of Her Precarious Youth (1915).[3]: 19 Told in the first person, it offers a slightly fictionalized account of her and her siblings' upbringing in Paris. Critics found it vivid, fresh, and entertaining.[5][6]
She married Thomas Nelson Strother (b. 1863) of Baltimore, Maryland; they had several children.[3]: 7 [7]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Leonard, John William, ed. Woman's Who's Who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary. New York: American Commonwealth Co., 1914, p. 792.
- ^ New York Times, August 26, 1959, p. 29.
- ^ a b c d e Kuhn, Reinhard Clifford. The Return to Reality: A Study of Francis Vielé-Griffin. Paris: Librairie Minard, 1962.
- ^ "Chronicles and Comment". The Bookman, December 1915, p. 367.
- ^ "Eve Dorre". Catholic World, vol. 102 (October 1915–March 1916), p. 401. (Book review)
- ^ Current Opinion, vol. 9, October 1915, p. VIII.
- ^ The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, vol. 33, 1902, p. 185.