Mary hallock foote biography of martin
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Have you heard of Mary Hallock Foote?
Born to a Quaker family in the Hudson Valley, Foote reluctantly came to Idaho in with her husband Arthur dem Wint Foote, a civil engineer who was closely involved in the development of the West. He worked on the irrigation of Idaho’s Treasure Valley.
Having studied art at Cooper Institute's School of Design for Women, Foote continued to work as a successful artist, and her illustrations appeared in the best magazines of the day. She also illustrated books bygd Longfellow, Whittier, and Hawthorne.
Foote then began to write her own stories, setting the tales in Coeur d’Alene, Craters of the Moon, Silver City, Thousands Springs, and Boise.
Foote Park, near Lucky Peak liten sjö south of Boise, opened in June It sits at the original homesite of Mary Hallock Foote and her husband Arthur De Wint Foote.
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Mabel Martin: A Harvest Idyl
Illustrated by: Mary Hallock Foote (American, –)
Illustrated by: John J. Harley (American, 19th century)
Illustrated by: Thomas Moran (American (born in England), –)
Illustrated by: Alfred R. Waud (American, –)
Engraved by: Andrew Varick Stout Anthony (American, –)
Author: John Greenleaf Whittier (American, –)
Publisher: James R. Osgood & Co. (American, 19th century)
Place of Publication: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Medium/Technique Illustrated book with 58 wood engravings (including vignettes)
Dimensions Overall: 22 x 16 x cm (8 11/16 x 6 5/16 x 3/4 in.)
Credit Line William A. Sargent Collection—Bequest of William A. Sargent
Accession Number
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company,
Catalogue Raisonné Hamilton, Early American Book Illustrators, no.
Description(Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, ) 22 cm; 72 pp.; original publisher's black- a
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Mary Hallock Foote:
Reconfiguring The Scarlet Letter, Redrawing Hester Prynne
<1> It took 28 years after Nathaniel Hawthorne published The Scarlet Letter in for Mary Hallock Foote to render drawings for one of the novel’s first illustrated editions, which was probably the first ever to be illustrated by a woman.(1) It took years after the publication of Foote’s illustrated edition in for Project Gutenberg to digitize and disseminate Hawthorne’s novel with Foote’s illustrations.(2) It has taken seven years for Hawthorne scholarship to commence addressing and examining Foote’s edition, and theorize what her drawings suggest about the act of seeing, for the heroine’s audiences in the book, and for the author’s audiences reading the book.(3) This essay is one of the first to seek to recreate this dialogue between a male author and a female illustrator, and to assess how it implicitly alters the conversations within Hawthorne’s novel, about how men and women like Arthur Dimme