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Lavinia S. Goodwin

Lavinia S. Goodwin (February 4, 1833 – 1911) was an American author and educator of the long nineteenth century. She was a charter member of the New England Woman's Press Association.

Lavinia S. Goodwin
BornFebruary 4, 1833
St. Johnsbury, Vermont, U.S.
Died1911
Occupation
  • author
  • educator
Alma materState Seminary, Derby, Vermont, U.S.
SpouseE. W. Goodwin

Biography

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Lavinia (sometimes spelled, "Lavina")[1] Stella Tyler was born in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, February 4, 1833. Her parents were James P. and Philura (Crocker) Tyler.[2] In King's Chapel Burying Ground, Boston, is the grave of an ancestor marked by a stone from a foreign quarry, dating back to the Colonial period and bearing the coat of arms of the English Tyler family.[3]

She was educated in public and private schools and the State Seminary, Derby, Vermont.[2]

From childhood, she was an earnest reader and an ambitious student, as well as a lover of nature and replete with physical activity. While very young, her habit of whispering "made-up" stories to herself on her nightly pillow furnished amusement to older listeners. From sensitiveness on the point, her earliest writings were either destroyed or sedulously concealed, until finally, some pieces of verse that accidentally fell under a friendly eye were forwarded to a city newspaper and published without her knowledge.[3]

When between fourteen and fifteen years old, she taught a district school, and for a few years until her marriage, was alternately teacher and pupil. Circumstances developed Goodwin's literary talent in the direction of versatility rather than specialty.[3]

Since an early marriage to E. W. Goodwin, she resided in Boston and was constantly connected with the press.[2] She was a contributor to the Great Republic monthly in 1859.[4] After having conducted departments for women and children, and become favorably known as a writer of stories, at the beginning of 1869, she was made associate editor of The Watchman (Boston),[5] in especial charge of its family page. The affiliation was re-established after an interval of service on the Journal of Education.[3] In 1887, when Georgia A. Peck, editor of the Boston Commonwealth left on vacation, she left Goodwin in charge of the publication.[6]

A season in California and Mexico tested her ability as a correspondent, and she was employed in that capacity in the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition (1876) and in the Paris Exposition Universelle (1878), her published letters winning general admiration. She produced a number of serials, one for a leading London journal.[3] The House We Live In was an 1893 children's serial for Our Little Men and Women focused on "our heads, hands and the rest of us" while not like studying physiology.[7]

Goodwin's volumes included, Little Folks' Own (collection of stories and verse, which had a large sale); The Little Helper (biography); The mysterious Miner;[8] Quicksands; The Light of Home; and Wings, Legs and Voices. Her books were published in the U.S. and England.[2] Besides contributing much to various popular publications for young people, she gained recognition in art and general literature. As a writer of poetry she was represented in many anthologies.[3] Goodwin was a charter member of the New England Woman's Press Association.[2]

Lavinia Stella Goodwin died in 1911.[8]

Selected works

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Books

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Little folks' own (1855)
  • Little folks' own : stories, sketches, poems, and paragraphs, designed to amuse and benefit the young (1855)
  • The Little Helper: a memoir of F.A. Caswell (with Florence Annie Caswell; 1867)
  • The mysterious miner: or, The gold-diggers of California. : A story of the Atlantic and Pacific shores. (1864)
  • The gambler's fate : or, The dove of sacrifice, a story of California (1864)
  • Vultures; or, The secret of a birth. A story of Boston. (1866)
  • Quicksands
  • The Light of Home
  • Wings, Legs and Voices

Serials

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  • The House We Live In

Articles

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  • "Ship Of The Desert" (Current, 1885)[9]
  • "Head-dresses Of A Century Ago" (1886)[10]
  • "The Ethics of Suicide" (The Boston Globe, 1888)[11]

Short stories

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  • "An Odd Mistake" (Our Little Ones, 1891)[12]
  • "Better Than She Knew"[13]

Poetry

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References

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  1. ^ Herringshaw, Thomas William (1904). "GOODWIN, MRS. LAVINA STELLA". Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century: Accurate and Succinct Biographies of Famous Men and Women in All Walks of Life who are Or Have Been the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States Since Its Formation ... American Publishers' Association. p. 409. Retrieved 27 December 2021.   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. ^ a b c d e "GOODWIN, Lavinia Stella". Who's who in Pennsylvania: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries. Vol. 1 (Public domain ed.). Chicago: A. N. Marquis & Company. 1909. p. 419. Retrieved 27 December 2021.   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  3. ^ a b c d e f Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). "LAVINA STELLA GOODWIN". A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life (Public domain ed.). Charles Wells Moulton. p. 325.   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  4. ^ "THE "GREAT REPUBLIC" MONTHLY". The Washington Union. 5 December 1858. p. 1. Retrieved 27 December 2021 – via Newspapers.com.   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  5. ^ "GOODWIN, Lavinia Stella". Who's who in America (Public domain ed.). Chicago : A. N. Marquis. 1900. p. 278. Retrieved 27 December 2021.   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  6. ^ Goodwin, Lavinia S. (27 July 1887). "LOCAL LINES". The Boston Globe. p. 5. Retrieved 27 December 2021 – via Newspapers.com.   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  7. ^ Goodwin, Lavinia S. (16 January 1893). "Our Little Men and Women, FOR 1893". The Tennessean. Nashville, Tennessee. p. 8. Retrieved 27 December 2021 – via Newspapers.com.   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  8. ^ a b "Item - The Mysterious Miner; or, The Gold Diggers of California - The Dime Novel Bibliography". dimenovels.org. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
  9. ^ Goodwin, Lavinia S. (16 October 1885). "SHIP OF THE DESERT". The Concordia Times. Concordia, Kansas. p. 1. Retrieved 27 December 2021 – via Newspapers.com.   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  10. ^ Goodwin, Lavinia S. (15 December 1886). "HEAD-DRESSES OF A CENTURY AGO". Boston Evening Transcript. p. 5. Retrieved 27 December 2021 – via Newspapers.com.   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  11. ^ Goodwin, Lavinia S. (26 October 1888). "THE ETHICS OF SUICIDE". Middlebury Register. p. 2. Retrieved 27 December 2021 – via Newspapers.com.   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  12. ^ Goodwin, Lavinia S. (21 November 1891). "AN ODD MISTAKE". Montreal River Miner and Iron County Republican. Hurley, Wisconsin. p. 7. Retrieved 27 December 2021 – via Newspapers.com.   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  13. ^ Goodwin, Lavinia S. (18 November 1892). ""BETTER THAN SHE KNEW"". The Blue Mound Sun. Blue Mound, Kansas. p. 4. Retrieved 27 December 2021 – via Newspapers.com.   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  14. ^ Goodwin, Lavinia S. (5 June 1885). "A CORNER IN ART". The Napa Register. p. 4. Retrieved 27 December 2021 – via Newspapers.com.   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  15. ^ Goodwin, Lavinia S. (17 July 1885). "JULY MAGAZINES". The Burlington Free Press. p. 4. Retrieved 27 December 2021 – via Newspapers.com.   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  16. ^ Goodwin, Lavinia S. (6 April 1893). "A BOY'S CALL". Monongahela Valley Republican. Monongahela, Pennsylvania. p. 1. Retrieved 27 December 2021 – via Newspapers.com.   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  17. ^ Goodwin, Lavinia S. (6 August 1898). "TAPPING". El Reno Evening Star. El Reno, Oklahoma. p. 4. Retrieved 27 December 2021 – via Newspapers.com.   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  18. ^ Goodwin, Lavinia S. (10 January 1902). "WHEN IT IS FINISHED". The News. p. 4. Retrieved 27 December 2021 – via Newspapers.com.   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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