| Helen Knipe Carpenter | |
| Birth Date: | 6 December 1881 |
| Birth Place: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US |
| Death Place: | Torrington, Connecticut, US |
| Occupation: | Illustrator, writer |
| Years Active: | 1906–1942 |
Helen Knipe Carpenter (December 6, 1881 – February 15, 1959) was an illustrator and writer active in the early 20th century noted for her Art Nouveau illustrations and her adaptations of stage plays to novels.[1]
Born Helen Alden Knipe on December 6, 1881, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a granddaughter of the novelist T. S. Arthur,[2] she studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under the tutelage of William Merritt Chase, Hugh Henry Brackenridge and Thomas Pollock Anshutz.[1] [3]
She married writer, playwright, and director Edward Childs Carpenter on June 1, 1907, in Philadelphia[4] [2] where they lived and worked for a number of years, summering in Connecticut.[5] [1]
Her works span the period from the late Art Nouveau period through the 1940s.[6]
| Year | Title |
|---|---|
| 1906 | Idelle Phelps, Your Health[7] |
| 1907 | Dwight Burroughs, Jack, the Giant Killer, Jr. with Elenore Plaisted Abbott |
| 1908 | Millicent Olmsted, The Land of Never Was, Being the Adventures of Great-A, Little-a, and Bouncing B with Elenore Plaisted Abbott |
| 1909 | Millicent Olmsted, The Land of Really True, Being the Everyday Life of Great-A, Little-a, and Bouncing B with Elenore Plaisted Abbott |
| 1911 | Elbridge Hosmer Sabin, The Magical Man of Mirth with Elenore Plaisted Abbott |
| 1911 | Elbridge Hosmer Sabin, Queen of the City of Mirth with Elenore Plaisted Abbott |
| 1920 | Nathaniel Hawthorne, A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales with Elenore Plaisted Abbott |
| Year | Title | |
|---|---|---|
| 1916 | The Cinderella Man, A Romance of Youth (book), based on the stage play by Edward Childs Carpenter | |
| 1932 | Whistling in the Dark (book), based on the stage play by Laurence Gross and Edward Childs Carpenter | |
| 1942 | Shylock's Daughter (play), with Edward Childs Carpenter[8] |
Carpenter died on February 15, 1959, in Litchfield, Connecticut. She and her husband Edward Childs Carpenter are interred in Town Hill Cemetery in New Hartford, Connecticut.