Louise Boynton
Louise Boynton | |
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 Louise Boynton, from a 1901 newspaper. | |
| Born | Mary Louise Boynton 1868 Georgetown, Massachusetts |
| Died | March 3, 1951 Tannersville, New York |
| Occupation(s) | Newspaper publisher, editor |
| Partner | Maude Adams |
| Relatives | Georgie Boynton Child(sister) |
Mary Louise Boynton(1868 – March 3, 1951) was an American newspaper publisher and editor. She was the personal secretary and partner of actressMaude Adams.
Early life
[edit]Louise Boynton was born inGeorgetown, Massachusetts,the eldest child of Casimir Whitman Boynton and Eunice Adelia Harriman Boynton.[1]She graduated fromVassar Collegein 1894.[2][3]
Career
[edit]In 1897, Boynton and her sisterGeorgie[4]bought a New Jersey newspaper, thePerth Amboy Republican,[5]and ran it as a daily newspaper until 1903,[6]with Louise Boynton as editor in chief.[7][8]She was credited as editor of her sister's 1914 book,The Efficient Kitchen,[9]and the sisters co-wrote a book of economical recipes,The Golden Grains(1932).[10]
From 1905, Boynton was closely associated with actress Maude Adams, usually described as her personal secretary.[11][12]A 1913 profile of Adams inGood Housekeepingelaborated, calling Boynton "a companion who is consulted on every momentous question of costume or farm produce; who is present at the trial of every stage effect and is the companion of every country drive; a true helpmeet in the small things of life as well as in the large."[13]
Personal life
[edit]Boynton and Adams lived and traveled together from 1905 until Boynton's death in 1951,[14]from an apparent heart attack.[15]Their graves are under a shared headstone, on the grounds of theCenacle ConventinRonkonkoma, Long Island.[16]
References
[edit]- ^"Perth Amboy".The Central New Jersey Home News.1937-06-06. p. 11.Retrieved2020-06-24– via Newspapers.
- ^Boynton, Mary Louise (November 1893)."Humps".The Vassar Miscellany.23:55.
- ^Boynton, Mary Louise (December 1892)."Home Life at Vassar".The Homemaker.9:248–250.
- ^"Two Sisters Who Own and Edit a Newspaper".The Kansas Weekly Capital.1901-07-05. p. 6.Retrieved2020-06-24– via Newspapers.
- ^"Run by Women".The Fall River Daily Herald.1898-01-21. p. 5.Retrieved2020-06-24– via Newspapers.
- ^"With Woman at the Helm".Chillicothe Gazette.1902-12-11. p. 3.Retrieved2020-06-24– via Newspapers.
- ^"Daily Run by Women".Fourth Estate:10. June 1, 1901.
- ^"Two Women Conduct a Daily Newspaper".The Philipsburg Mail.1901-08-02. p. 2.Retrieved2020-06-24– via Newspapers.
- ^Child, Georgie Boynton (1914).The Efficient Kitchen: Definite Directions for the Planning, Arranging and Equipping of the Modern Labor-saving Kitchen. A Practical Book For the Home-maker.McBridge, Nast.
- ^Boynton, Louise; Child, Georgie Boynton (1932).The Golden Grains.Clark-Sprague Company.
- ^Wolf, Rennold (August 1912)."Maude Adams, the Lonesomest Woman on the Stage".The Green Book Magazine.8:214.
- ^Patterson, Ada (1907).Maude Adams: A Biography.Meyer bros. & Company. p. 73.ISBN9780795003318.
- ^Dean, Frederic (May 1913)."Maude Adams".Good Housekeeping Magazine.56:606.
- ^"Memories of Maude".The Central New Jersey Home News.2004-07-08. p. 105.Retrieved2020-06-24– via Newspapers.
- ^Fields, Armond (2004-07-08).Maude Adams: Idol of American Theater, 1872-1953.McFarland. p. 301.ISBN978-0-7864-1927-2.
- ^McDonald, Joel (2019-02-07)."Maude Adams: Mormon, Lesbian and the Broadway's First Peter Pan".Affirmation: LGBTQ Mormons, Families & Friends.Retrieved2020-06-24.
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