Talk:Frank Fremont-Smith
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Frances Eliot Fremont-Smith
edit"He was married to Frances Eliot Fremont-Smith" (FEF-S)
- Our source, the 2007 NYT obituary of son Eliot [1], actually says: "Born in Cambridge, Mass., in 1929, Mr. [Eliot] Fremont-Smith was the youngest of three sons born to Frank Fremont-Smith and Frances Hopkinson Fremont-Smith." Eliot seems likely, or "FEF-S". ...
Probably FEF-S is the illustrator of at least one children's book
- (WorldCat record). The House on the Edge of Things, Ethel Cook Eliot, The Beacon Press, 1923; "Fairy tales"
There was a capsule review of that book in The Hartford Courant, 1923-11-25, pg. 5B (found via ProQuest Historical Newspapers). "Miss Eliot's ... is an unusually piquant and imaginative fairy tale ... the illustrations, which are in full color, and also in black-and-white, are extremely decorative, and exactly fit the spirit of the story itself."
"Ethel Cook Eliot" may be a relative, even her sister I suppose. [see below]
- Eliot, Ethel Cook, 1890-1972 at Library of Congress, with 22 library catalog records
Frances Eliot Fremont-Smith is not similarly identified by LC (no LCCN). FEF-S is named only once (for the book above) in the browse report for Miss Eliot, 22 hits, but more may show up if other records are opened.
--P64 (talk) 02:00, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
- Elsewhere we say of writer Winslow Eliot aka Ellie Winslow, born 1956, that her grandmother Ethel Cook Eliot wrote children's books, Winslow Eliot#Background. Probably ECE is the missing link betw Charles W. Eliot b. 1834 -- Samuel A. Eliot (minister) -- ??? -- Alexander Eliot -- Winslow Eliot. We have Samuel Atkins Eliot, Jr. but neither biog of SAE names children or siblings.
- Now I cross-post at Talk:Samuel A. Eliot (minister) and Talk:Samuel Atkins Eliot, Jr.. --P64 (talk) 02:47, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
- Yes to the missing link. ECE was "the wife of Samuel A. Eliot, Jr. of Smith College", mother of Alexander and Torka --per a review of The Wind Boy (Sep 1923) published The Forum 71.3 (March 1924), p413. --P64 (talk) 20:27, 8 May 2016 (UTC)