Julie M. Lippmann Explained

Julie Mathilde Lippmann (June 27, 1864^[1] - 1952) was a writer, literary critic, women's suffrage supporter, and political writer.^[2] She wrote novels, plays, poetry, literary criticism, and U.S. propaganda during World War I. Her novel Martha By-The-Day was adapted on stage in 1914.^[3] The 1919 film The Hoodlum (1919 film) was based on her novel Burkeses Amy.

Lippmann was born in Brooklyn, New York. She was educated at private schools in Brooklyn and by a governess. She traveled extensively.^[4]

She was friends with Louisa May Alcott, Charles Dudley Warner, William Gillette, and Mark Twain.^{[5] [2]}

Her stories were published in various magazines.^[6] She wrote the lyrics to the song "My Lady Jacqueminot".^[2] Lippmann's poems included "If We But Knew" published in 1889^[7] and "Love and Life".^[8]

After her death in 1952, her niece, artist and poet Julie Morrow DeForest, wrote the memoir "Auntie: Remininiscences of Julie M. Lippman".^{[5] [9]}

Bibliography

• Dearie, Dot and the Dog (1903), illustrated by Margaret F. Winner^[10]
• Sweet P's (1905)^[5]
• Martha by-the-day (1912),^[11] her most well known work, she adapted it into a successful play^{[5] [2]}
• Making Over Martha (1913)
• Burkeses Amy (1914)
• Martha and Cupid (1914)
• Amy and the Burkeses (1915)
• Everyday Girls^[4]
• The Interlopers (1917)
• The Mannequin (1917)
• Flexible Ferdinand (1919)^[11]
• Wildfire
• Dorothy Day
• Jack o' Dreams

Plays

• Cousin Faithful (1908)
• The Facts in the Case (1912)
• A Fool and His Money (1913)^[12]
• Martha By-the-Day (1914)

Filmography

• The Hoodlum (1919 film)

Notes and References

1. https://archive.org/details/whoswhoinamerica02marq/page/688/mode/2up LIPPMANN, Julie Mathilde
2. Web site: Lippmann at Songs of America.
3. Web site: Los Angeles Herald 9 December 1914 — California Digital Newspaper Collection.
4. Web site: Distinguished successful Americans of our day: Containing biographies of prominent Americans now living, noteworthy as having achieved success in their chosen avocations in the various civil, military, educational, religious, industrial, commercial and other lines of human effort--men of thought and men of action who have been effective in the establishment and maintenance of our commonwealth, prominent citizens in all walks of life who are really the founders, makers and builders of our great republic as manifested in America's great institutions of finance, commerce and trade, and its unparalleled progress in education, literature, art, science, and in the development of our nation in all lines of human endeavor. 1911.
5. Web site: archives.nypl.org -- "Auntie" : reminiscences of Julie M. Lippmann: typed manuscript. archives.nypl.org.
6. Haste, Life - Be brief!Said Life: - Here's grief.
7. Web site: The Overland Monthly. 1889.
8. Web site: The Home Book of Verse: American and English, 1580-1912. Stevenson. Burton Egbert. 1912.
9. Web site: DeForest, Julia Morrow [WorldCat Identities]].
10. Web site: Dearie, Dot and the dog. Library of Congress.
11. Book: American Fiction, 1901-1925: A Bibliography. 9780521434690. Smith. Geoffrey D.. 13 August 1997. Cambridge University Press .
12. Book: Lippmann, Julie Mathilde. A fool and his money: a comedy in two acts. June 11, 1913. Penn. 836927261. Open WorldCat.