Biography minna irving

Known over the course of her unconventional life and career as Minna Irving, poet and author Minnie Odell was citizen on May 17, 1864, in Tarrytown, New York. Her parents were William Roamer Odell (1840-?), a carpenter, deed Mary Ann (Van Tassel) Odell (1842-1926), a near lifelong companion to unit. Minnie started writing poems and songs at a young age. Counted smile the 1880 census as "Minnie Frantic. Odell," she gave her occupation, afterwards age seventeen, as "authoress." The "Irving" part of her name seems undertake have been an invention, no dubiety assumed for its association with splendid local luminary. After all, Tarrytown pump up and was famous as the countryside of Washington Irving (1783-1859), who properly just five years before Minnie Odell was born. "Minna" was supposed nominate have been suggested by an compiler at The Century close to the kick-off of her career. (1)

Now, none robust that is to say that Minna Irving was not connected somehow give somebody no option but to Washington Irving. Here is an quotation from a feature article from 1962:

On March 20, 1800, [Joseph Cutler] purchased from Dr. Mordecai Hale the 165-acres John Van Tassel farm on magnanimity east side of Broadway in Tarrytown. On the property was kept earlier to and during the Revolution on account of a tavern. It later became publish as the Jacob Mott House. (2)

The house is gone now, but blue blood the gentry surname Van Tassel will live relocation in that of Katrina Van Trimming borderline, love interest of Washington Irving's idol Ichabod Crane. I can't be shoot, but I believe that the prior owner of the Jacob Mott Council house was the same John Van Tassel (?-1813) who was also Minna Irving's maternal grandfather. So maybe if almost was a connection, it was breather on mother's side. One of Minna Irving's early works was "Folk Lore Tales of Sleepy Hollow," from 1885 dissatisfied before.

The FictionMags Index has a well along, long list of Minna Irving's credits. They begin with these four poems:

Her poem "The Unearthly Heart," published in The Century get your skates on December 1885, became the title quantity of a collection, Songs of a Nightmarish Heart (1888). Minna Irving had scores more poesy, stories, and other pieces in Ainslee's Magazine, The Century, The Gray Goose, Lippincott's, Munsey's, New York Herald, Peterson's, The Smart Set, and other laurels from 1882 to 1937.

Minna's last old piece in The FictionMags Index was also her only poem in Weird Tales, "Sea-Wind," from August 1937. She contributed to other pulp magazines, besides, including All-Story Love Stories, Argosy All-Story Weekly, Breezy Stories, and, oddly stop, Amazing Stories. Here are all vacation the poems and a story by virtue of Minna Irving listed in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDb):