Birth Name: | Charlotte Rose Teller |
Birth Date: | March 3, 1876 |
Other Names: | John Brangwyn |
Occupation: | Writer |
Father: | James Harvey Teller |
Mother: | Frances Leonora Wheelock |
Spouses: | Frank Minitree Johnson (m. 1902; div.) Gilbert Julius Hirsch (m. Oct. 14, 1912; died May 3, 1926) |
Charlotte Rose Teller, later Hirsch (March 3, 1876 – December 30, 1953),[1] also using the pen name John Brangwyn, was an American writer and socialist active in New York City. She graduated in 1899 from the University of Chicago (BA).[2] [1] Her book The Cage was published in 1907. Mark Twain had offered to endorse it "in the form of a letter to the actress Maude Adams".[2] Mary Haskell introduced Teller and Kahlil Gibran to each other in January 1908.
Her marriage to Frank Minitree Johnson ended in a divorce. On October 14, 1912, she married Gilbert Julius Hirsch (December 16, 1886 – May 3, 1926); they had a son, Richard, born September 12, 1914.