Margaret M. Barbour Stone Explained

Margaret M. Barbour Stone
Birth Date:February 27, 1841
Birth Place:St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Death Date:June 25, 1913 (age 72)
Death Place:St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Other Names:Mrs. C. H. Stone
Occupation:Writer, clubwoman
Notable Works:A Practical Study of the Soul (1901)

Margaret Manson Barbour Stone (February 27, 1841 – June 25, 1913) was an American writer and clubwoman, based in St. Louis, Missouri.

Early life and education

Barbour was born in St. Louis, the daughter of William E. Barbour and Mary C. Berry Barbour. She attended Mary Institute.[1]

Career

Stone was "president and originator" of the Modern Novel Club in 1885.[2] She also created public contests for housework tasks, in the 1890s.[3] Her novel One of "Berrian's" Novels (1890)[4] is set in the 21st-century utopia of Bellamy's Looking Backward (1888); Berrian is a novelist in the Bellamy book.[5] She lectured in New York City, and studied "the domestic problem" in Paris.[6]

Stone spent fifteen years working on her book A Practical Study of the Soul (1901). "I don't think the physicians will agree with what I say, and I am very sure that educational persons will not," she told an interviewer in 1901.[7] The book was described as being "written with the sincerest wish to help humanity to avoid the many wrecks which strew the path of life"[8] and which "may well prove of no little service as an aid in the development of character."[9] "This book impresses one as the work of a woman of vivacious intelligence, fairly serious-minded, a reader of lay philosophy and transcendental essays and adapted to be a leader in culture clubs," noted a reviewer in the Baltimore Sun, who judged the book "not sheer nonsense."[10]

Publications

Personal life

Barbour married professor Charles Henry Stone in 1862; they had five children; her daughter Jasmine Stone married artist William Van Dresser,[15] and became a writer of children's books.[16] [17] Her daughter Lillian Stone was a playwright, married to writer William Flewellyn Saunders.[18] Her husband died in 1906, and she died in 1913, at the age of 72, at her daughter's home in St. Louis.

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Leonard, John William . Who's who in America . Marquis . Albert Nelson . 1901 . A.N. Marquis . en.
  2. News: 1899-10-08 . Modern Novel Club . 2024-07-10 . St. Louis Post-Dispatch . 20 . Newspapers.com.
  3. News: 1913-06-28 . Mrs. Stone, Author, Dies in St. Louis . 2024-07-10 . The San Francisco Call and Post . Newspapers.com. 8.
  4. Web site: Pre-1950 Utopias and Science Fiction by Women; An Annotated Reading List of Online Editions of Speculative Fiction . 2024-07-10 . Digital Library, University of Pennsylvania.
  5. Web site: SFE: Stone, Mrs C H . 2024-07-10 . The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.
  6. News: 1896-10-03 . Personal . 2024-07-10 . The Standard Union . 2 . Newspapers.com.
  7. News: 1901-09-16 . Soul and Mind, Declares Mrs. C. H. Stone, are One . 2024-07-10 . The St Louis Republic . 12 . Newspapers.com.
  8. December 1901 . Book News for December . Book News Monthly . 20 . 232 . 356.
  9. February 1902 . Book Reviews . The Hartford Seminary Record . 12 . 2 . 147.
  10. News: Rebec . George . 1902-10-23 . Religious . 2024-07-10 . The Baltimore Sun . 8 . Newspapers.com.
  11. Book: Stone, C. H. . One of "Berrian's" novels . 1890 . Welch, Fracker Company . New York.
  12. Web site: The problem of domestic service [electronic resource] / by Mrs. C.H. Stone ]. 2024-07-10 . - Catalogue, National Library of Australia . en.
  13. Book: Stone, Margaret Manson Barbour . To Reading Clubs and Students of Fiction . 1896 . Modern Novel Club . en.
  14. Book: Stone, Margaret M. Barbour (Margaret Manson Barbour) . A practical study of the soul . 1901 . New York : Dodd, Mead & Co. . Cornell University Library.
  15. News: 1928-11-12 . An Artist Who Doesn't Wait for Sitters . 2024-07-10 . St. Louis Post-Dispatch . 33 . Newspapers.com.
  16. Book: Dresser, Jasmine Stone Van . The Little Brown Hen Hears the Song of the Nightingale ; and The Golden Harvest . 1908 . Paul Elder . en.
  17. Book: Dresser, Jasmine Stone Van . Jimsey . 1925 . Rand McNally . en.
  18. News: Thornton . Hamilton . 1931-04-12 . Mrs. William Flewellyn Saunders is a Firm Believer in the Art Values of the Little Theatre . 2024-07-10 . St. Louis Globe-Democrat . 55 . Newspapers.com.

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