Abbe Carter Goodloe

Abbe (or Abbie) Carter Goodloe (January 15, 1867 – October 8, 1960) was an American writer, sometimes credited as A. Carter Goodloe or Carter Goodloe.[1]

Abbe Carter Goodloe
A young white woman wearing a gown with a square ruffled neckline
Abbe Carter Goodloe, from a 1897 publication
Born
Abbie Carter Goodloe

January 15, 1867
Versailles, Kentucky
DiedOctober 8, 1960 (aged 93)
New York, New York
Other namesA. Carter Goodloe, Carter Goodloe
OccupationWriter
Notable workCollege Girls (1897)

Early life
College Girls by Abbe Carter Goodloe, illustrated by Charles Dana Gibson. LCCN2014650127

Abbie Carter was born in Versailles, Kentucky, the daughter of John Kemp Goodloe and Mary Lucretia Goodloe. Her mother was a clubwoman,[2] and her father was a lawyer and a judge.[3] She graduated from Wellesley College in 1898,[4][5] and wrote the lyrics for two songs in the college songbook ("Mona Lisa" and "Le Pays du Tendre").[6] After college she went to France to improve her French language skills.[7]

Career

Goodloe was a writer who specialized in short stories,[5][8] many of which were published in Scribner's Magazine.[9] She also did translations for Scribner's.[7] Books by Goodloe included Antinoüs: a tragedy (1891),[10] College Girls (1895, a collection of her stories, illustrated by Charles Dana Gibson),[11] Calvert of Strathore (1903, a novel),[12] At the Foot of the Rockies (1905, more short stories),[13][14] and The Star-Gazers (1910, a romance set in Mexico).[15] Her style was described as "vivid", and "essentially clever and racy to a delightful degree", in an 1895 review.[16] She also wrote plays. Her story "Claustrophobia" (Scribner's, 1926) won an O. Henry Award in 1927; it was made into a film titled I Live My Life (1935), starring Joan Crawford and Brian Aherne.[17] Later in her career, she sold scenarios for television productions.[7]

During World War I, she hosted fundraising events for war relief causes with the Wellesley Club of Kentucky.[18][19]

Personal life

Goodloe played golf.[20] She died in 1960, aged 93 years, in New York City. Her stories are still anthologized in collections of American literature.[21]

References
  1. "Notes about Books and Authors". The Book Buyer. 35: 147. October 1910.
  2. "Pioneer Woman of City is Dead". The Courier-Journal. 1922-09-10. p. 2. Retrieved 2021-03-29 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. "J. K. Goodloe, 65, Dies at Home; Funeral Today". The Courier-Journal. 1946-12-24. p. 8. Retrieved 2021-03-29 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. Goodloe, Abbe Carter (May 1898). "Undergraduate Life at Wellesley College". Scribner's Magazine. 23: 515–538.
  5. "Writes Stories About Girls". The Anaconda Standard. 1910-11-10. p. 6. Retrieved 2021-03-28 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. Wellesley Lyrics: Poems Written by Students and Graduates of Wellesley College. F. Wood Printer. 1896. pp. 17, 145.
  7. Ross, James M. (1942-05-17). "Louisville Writer Takes Stock". The Courier-Journal. p. 25. Retrieved 2021-03-29 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. Giltner, Leigh Gordon. "Kentucky in Recent Literature" Midland Monthly 8(December 1897): 485.
  9. "Honor for Louisville Writer". The Courier-Journal. 1915-05-31. p. 8. Retrieved 2021-03-29 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. Goodloe, Abbe Carter (1891). Antinoüs: a tragedy. Philadelphia: Printed by J.B. Lippincott Company.
  11. Goodloe, Abbe Carter (1895). College girls. New York: C. Scribner's sons.
  12. Goodloe, Abbe Carter (1903). Calvert of Strathore. New York: Scribner.
  13. Goodloe, Abbe Carter (1905). At the foot of the Rockies. New York: C. Scribner's sons.
  14. "Still Another Book by a Prominent Louisville Author". The Courier-Journal. 1905-05-20. p. 5. Retrieved 2021-03-28 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. Goodloe, Abbe Carter (1910). The star-gazers. New York: C. Scribner's sons.
  16. "Book Reviews". The Vassar Miscellany. 25: 94. November 1895. ISBN 0822325128.
  17. "Her Story is Filmed". The Courier-Journal. 1935-09-27. p. 12. Retrieved 2021-03-29 – via Newspapers.com.
  18. "Announcements". The Courier-Journal. 1918-08-25. p. 22. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
  19. "Louisville Authoress". The Courier-Journal. 1918-09-01. p. 16. Retrieved 2021-03-28.
  20. "Ourselves in Black and White". The Courier-Journal. 1921-04-06. p. 12. Retrieved 2021-03-29 – via Newspapers.com.
  21. Dawson, Melanie (2000-07-07). The American 1890s: A Cultural Reader. Duke University Press. p. 376. ISBN 978-0-8223-2512-3.
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