Zoe Kincaid Penlington Explained

Zoe Kincaid Penlington
Birth Name:Zoe Rowena Kincaid
Birth Date:March 2, 1878
Birth Place:Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Death Place:Ventura, California, U.S.
Occupation:Journalist, arts critic, editor
Relatives:Trevor Kincaid (brother)

Zoë Rowena Kincaid Penlington (March 2, 1878 – March 28, 1944) was a Canadian-born American journalist, critic, and editor. She wrote Kabuki: The Popular Stage in Japan (1925), considered "the first extensive study of kabuki in English".[1] (Her first name is written both with and without the diaeresis in sources.)

Early life and education

Zoe Kincaid was born in Peterborough, Ontario[2] and raised in Olympia, Washington,[3] [4] the daughter of Robert Kincaid and Mary Margaret Bell Kincaid. Her father was an Irish-born Canadian surgeon and a veteran of the Union Army in the American Civil War. Her older brother Trevor Kincaid became a noted biologist.[5] She graduated from Olympia High School, and from the University of Washington in 1902.[6] [7] In college she was the founding editor of the yearbook and the literary editor of the school newspaper. In 1908, she was elected president of the University of Washington Alumnae Association.[8]

Career

Kincaid worked as a journalist in Washington state as a young woman,[9] especially at The Westerner, a regional literary magazine. She moved to Tokyo in 1908, to write and teach English.[10] She was founding co-editor Japan Magazine, an English-language monthly launched in 1910[11] as the official publication of the Tokyo Industrial Association.[12] Her first article for Japan Magazine was a profile of meteorologist and his wife Chiyoko, who maintained a weather station on Mount Fuji.[13]

With her husband Penlington she also helped produce The Far East, a weekly English magazine.[14] [15] The magazine's offices were destroyed in the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake. She was a theatre critic,[16] [17] and a member of the International Press Association of Japan. She wrote Kabuki: The Popular Stage in Japan (1925), the first English-language book about the kabuki tradition,[18] and "a much needed and very important history of the popular Japanese stage," according to The New York Times reviewer Charles DeKay.[19] She also wrote about noh dance-dramas and bunraku puppetry.[20] She worked with a translator to adapt two kabuki plays by Kido Okamoto, published as The Human Pillar and The Mask-Maker.

Publications

Personal life

Kincaid married British journalist John Newton Penlington in 1910. Her husband died in 1933,[30] [31] and she returned to the United States permanently in 1941. She died from a ruptured appendix in 1944, at the age of 66, while visiting her sister in Ventura, California.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2018-03-16 . #AsiaNow Speaks with Satoko Shimazaki . 2022-11-09 . Association for Asian Studies . en-US.
  2. News: 1944-03-28 . Noted Writer Dies Here . 1, 2 . Ventura County Star . 2022-11-09 . Newspapers.com.
  3. News: 1936-02-17 . Tokyo Resident Plans Trip Here . 3 . The Daily Olympian . 2022-11-09 . Newspapers.com.
  4. News: 1936-09-13 . Former Olympian Returns to Give Unusual Program . 3 . The Daily Olympian . 2022-11-09 . Newspapers.com.
  5. News: 1920-08-20 . Dr. Robert Kincaid Dies at Son's Home in Seattle at Age of 88 . 1 . The Washington Standard . 2022-11-09 . Newspapers.com.
  6. University of Washington, Tyee (1902 yearbook): no page numbers. via Ancestry
  7. News: 1921-09-23 . Mrs. Penlington Returns to Orient . 8 . The Washington Standard . 2022-11-09 . Newspapers.com.
  8. Di Biase . Linda Teresa . Spring 2015 . Zoe Kincaid: A Western Journalist Discovers Japan . Columbia . 10–17.
  9. News: Hollingsworth . Helen . 1936-07-12 . Olympian Returns After 20 Years Study in Japan . 1, 8 . The Olympian . 2022-11-09 . Newspapers.com.
  10. News: 1910-08-24 . Will Marry Japanese Newspaper Man . 1 . The Wenatchee Daily World . 2022-11-09 . Newspapers.com.
  11. News: 1936-11-14 . News Writer to Speak at Forum . 6 . The Fresno Bee . 2022-11-09 . Newspapers.com.
  12. Book: Japan Magazine Co. . Japan Magazine 1910 v1 vol. 1 . 1910 . masthead . English.
  13. Kincaid . Zoe . February 1910 . Nonaka, the Mountaineer . Japan Magazine . 1 . 1 . 54–56 . Internet Archive.
  14. June 24, 1922 . Helps to Understanding The Far East . The Business Chronicle of the Pacific Northwest . 13 . 38.
  15. News: Gould . Dorothy Fay . 1921-08-24 . Mrs. John N. Penlington Brings Tokyo Art Here . 8 . The Seattle Star . 2022-11-09 . Newspapers.com.
  16. Book: Balme, Christopher B. . The Globalization of Theatre 1870-1930: The Theatrical Networks of Maurice E. Bandmann . 2019 . Cambridge University Press . 978-1-108-48789-4 . 129 . en.
  17. News: Hanifin . Ada . 1936-10-13 . Highlights and Shadows . 24 . The San Francisco Examiner . 2022-11-09 . Newspapers.com.
  18. News: 1944-03-29 . Notable Woman Writer Passes . 11 . The Province . 2022-11-09 . Newspapers.com.
  19. News: Kay . Charles de . 1926-01-31 . In the Theatres of the Orient; Tradition Weighs Heavily on the Drama of China and Japan . en-US . 13 . The New York Times . 2022-11-09 . 0362-4331.
  20. Matthews . Brander . February 1926 . New Picture Books of the Playhouse . The Literary Digest International Book Review . 4 . 162–164.
  21. Penlington . Zoe Kincaid . March 1921 . The Hidden Genius of the East . Pacific Review . 1 . 452–463 . Internet Archive.
  22. Book: Kincaid, Zoë . Kabuki; the Popular Stage of Japan . 1965 . B. Blom . en.
  23. Kincaid . Zoe . October 1926 . Playgoing in Present-Day Japan . Japan Overseas Travel Magazine . 15 . 18–20.
  24. January 1927 . The Stage of Today in Japan . Japan Overseas Travel Magazine . 15 . 5–8.
  25. Kincaid . Zoe . July 1927 . The Virile Drama of Japan . Japan Overseas Travel Magazine . 15 . 5–8.
  26. Kincaid . Zoe . March 1927 . Hina Matsuri: The Girls' Festival . Japan Overseas Travel Magazine . 15 . 9–11.
  27. Kincaid . Zoe . September 1927 . An International Theater . Japan Overseas Travel Magazine . 15 . 14–15.
  28. Book: 岡本綺堂 . The Mask-maker: A Drama in Three Acts . 1928 . S. French . en.
  29. Book: Kincaid, Zoë . Tokyo Vignettes . 1933 . Sanseido Company, Limited . en.
  30. News: 1933-03-30 . John N. Penlington; Dean of Foreign Newspaper Correspondents in Far East . en-US . The New York Times . 2022-11-09 . 0362-4331.
  31. News: 1933-03-29 . John N. Penlington Correspondent in Far East, is Dead . 2 . The Ottawa Citizen . 2022-11-09 . Newspapers.com.

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