Lavinia S. Goodwin Explained

Lavinia S. Goodwin
Birth Date:February 4, 1833
Birth Place:St. Johnsbury, Vermont, U.S.
Death Date:1911
Alma Mater:State Seminary, Derby, Vermont, U.S.
Spouse:E. W. Goodwin

Lavinia S. Goodwin (February 4, 1833 – 1911) was an American author and educator of the long nineteenth century. She was a charter member of the New England Woman's Press Association.

Biography

Lavinia (sometimes spelled, "Lavina")[1] Stella Tyler was born in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, February 4, 1833. Her parents were James P. and Philura (Crocker) Tyler.[2] In King's Chapel Burying Ground, Boston, is the grave of an ancestor marked by a stone from a foreign quarry, dating back to the Colonial period and bearing the coat of arms of the English Tyler family.[3]

She was educated in public and private schools and the State Seminary, Derby, Vermont.

From childhood, she was an earnest reader and an ambitious student, as well as a lover of nature and replete with physical activity. While very young, her habit of whispering "made-up" stories to herself on her nightly pillow furnished amusement to older listeners. From sensitiveness on the point, her earliest writings were either destroyed or sedulously concealed, until finally, some pieces of verse that accidentally fell under a friendly eye were forwarded to a city newspaper and published without her knowledge.

When between fourteen and fifteen years old, she taught a district school, and for a few years until her marriage, was alternately teacher and pupil. Circumstances developed Goodwin's literary talent in the direction of versatility rather than specialty.

Since an early marriage to E. W. Goodwin, she resided in Boston and was constantly connected with the press. She was a contributor to the Great Republic monthly in 1859.[4] After having conducted departments for women and children, and become favorably known as a writer of stories, at the beginning of 1869, she was made associate editor of The Watchman (Boston),[5] in especial charge of its family page. The affiliation was re-established after an interval of service on the Journal of Education. In 1887, when Georgia A. Peck, editor of the Boston Commonwealth left on vacation, she left Goodwin in charge of the publication.[6]

A season in California and Mexico tested her ability as a correspondent, and she was employed in that capacity in the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition (1876) and in the Paris Exposition Universelle (1878), her published letters winning general admiration. She produced a number of serials, one for a leading London journal. The House We Live In was an 1893 children's serial for Our Little Men and Women focused on "our heads, hands and the rest of us" while not like studying physiology.[7]

Goodwin's volumes included, Little Folks' Own (collection of stories and verse, which had a large sale); The Little Helper (biography); The mysterious Miner;[8] Quicksands; The Light of Home; and Wings, Legs and Voices. Her books were published in the U.S. and England. Besides contributing much to various popular publications for young people, she gained recognition in art and general literature. As a writer of poetry she was represented in many anthologies. Goodwin was a charter member of the New England Woman's Press Association.

Lavinia Stella Goodwin died in 1911.

Selected works

Books

Serials

Articles

Short stories

Poetry

Notes and References

  1. Book: Herringshaw . Thomas William . Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century: Accurate and Succinct Biographies of Famous Men and Women in All Walks of Life who are Or Have Been the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States Since Its Formation ... . 1904 . American Publishers' Association . 409 . https://books.google.com/books?id=Xxg7AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA409 . GOODWIN, MRS. LAVINA STELLA . 27 December 2021 . en.
  2. Book: Who's who in Pennsylvania: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries . 1909 . A. N. Marquis & Company . Chicago . 419 . 1 . Public domain . https://books.google.com/books?id=yk8DAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA419 . 27 December 2021 . en . GOODWIN, Lavinia Stella.
  3. Book: Willard. Frances Elizabeth. Frances Willard. Livermore. Mary Ashton Rice. Mary Livermore. A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life. LAVINA STELLA GOODWIN . Public domain. 1893 . 325. Charles Wells Moulton.
  4. News: THE "GREAT REPUBLIC" MONTHLY. . 27 December 2021 . The Washington Union . . 5 December 1858 . 1 . en.
  5. Book: Who's who in America . 1900 . Chicago : A. N. Marquis . 278 . Public domain . https://archive.org/details/whoswhoinameric00incgoog/page/278/mode/2up?q=Goodwin . 27 December 2021 . en . GOODWIN, Lavinia Stella.
  6. News: LOCAL LINES . Lavinia S. . Goodwin . 27 December 2021 . The Boston Globe . . 27 July 1887 . 5 . en.
  7. News: Our Little Men and Women, FOR 1893. . Lavinia S. . Goodwin . 27 December 2021 . The Tennessean . . 16 January 1893 . Nashville, Tennessee . 8 . en.
  8. Web site: Item - The Mysterious Miner; or, The Gold Diggers of California - The Dime Novel Bibliography . dimenovels.org . 27 December 2021.
  9. News: Goodwin . Lavinia S. . SHIP OF THE DESERT. . 27 December 2021 . The Concordia Times . Concordia, Kansas . . 16 October 1885 . 1 . en.
  10. News: Goodwin . Lavinia S. . HEAD-DRESSES OF A CENTURY AGO . 27 December 2021 . Boston Evening Transcript . Newspapers.com . 15 December 1886 . 5 . en.
  11. News: THE ETHICS OF SUICIDE . Lavinia S. . Goodwin . 27 December 2021 . Middlebury Register . . 26 October 1888 . 2 . en.
  12. News: Goodwin . Lavinia S. . AN ODD MISTAKE. . 27 December 2021 . Montreal River Miner and Iron County Republican . . 21 November 1891 . Hurley, Wisconsin . 7 . en.
  13. News: "BETTER THAN SHE KNEW" . Lavinia S. . Goodwin . 27 December 2021 . The Blue Mound Sun . . 18 November 1892 . Blue Mound, Kansas . 4 . en.
  14. News: Goodwin . Lavinia S. . A CORNER IN ART . 27 December 2021 . The Napa Register . . 5 June 1885 . 4 . en.
  15. News: JULY MAGAZINES . Lavinia S. . Goodwin . 27 December 2021 . The Burlington Free Press . . 17 July 1885 . 4 . en.
  16. News: A BOY'S CALL . Lavinia S. . Goodwin . 27 December 2021 . Monongahela Valley Republican . . 6 April 1893 . Monongahela, Pennsylvania . 1 . en.
  17. News: Goodwin . Lavinia S. . TAPPING. . 27 December 2021 . El Reno Evening Star . . 6 August 1898 . El Reno, Oklahoma . 4 . en.
  18. News: WHEN IT IS FINISHED. . Lavinia S. . Goodwin . 27 December 2021 . The News . . 10 January 1902 . 4 . en.

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