Patience Stapleton

Patience Stapleton
BornMartha Armstrong Tucker Edit this on Wikidata
March 9, 1861 Edit this on Wikidata
Wiscasset Edit this on Wikidata
DiedNovember 25, 1893 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 32)
New York City Edit this on Wikidata
Resting placeWoodlawn Cemetery Edit this on Wikidata
OccupationWriter, journalist Edit this on Wikidata
FamilyRichard Hawley Tucker Edit this on Wikidata

Patience Stapleton (9 March 1861 – 25 November 1893) was an American novelist and journalist.

She was born Martha Armstrong Tucker on 9 March 1861 in Wiscasset, Maine, one of six children of Richard Holbrook Tucker, a sea captain, and Mary Geraldine Armstrong Tucker. She grew up in the family home, Castle Tucker, in Wiscasset. Her brother was the astronomer Richard Hawley Tucker.[1][2][3][4]

She was educated at a convent in Whitefield, Maine, a boarding school called The Willows in Farmington, Maine, where she produced her first play at the age of 15, and the Moravian Seminary in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. After graduating in 1877, she spent a year as a public school teacher in Bethlehem. She published her first short story, "Jim", in The Youth's Companion in 1879.[1][4]

Patience Stapleton died on 25 November 1893 in New York City, a few days after an operation to remove a tumor.[1][5]

  1. ^ a b c Dalton, Joann (Summer 1976). "Patience Stapleton: A Forgotten Frontier Writer" (PDF). Colorado Magazine. 53 (3): 261–276.
  2. ^ Ray Bearse, ed. (1969). Maine: a guide to the Vacation State. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
  3. ^ Chase, Fannie Scott (1941). Wiscasset in Pownalborough; a history of the shire town and the salient historical features of the territory between the Sheepscot and Kennebec rivers. Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center. Wiscasset, Me., [The Southworth-Anthoensen Press].
  4. ^ a b "Tucker family papers". Historic New England.
  5. ^ "Obituary". New York Times. 26 Nov 1893. p. 5.

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