Snedeker, Caroline Dale
Entry updated 2 December 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1871-1956) US author, initially of children's books, some of them depicting life in versions of New Harmony, the town of her birth being named after the communitarian Utopia New Harmony created by her grandfather Robert Owen (1771-1858). Seth Way: A Romance of the New Harmony Community (1917) is a fictionalized (and fantasticated) biography of an experimental Scientist and early resident of New Harmony, Indiana, which had been purchased by Owen in 1825 from an earlier utopian society. Her children's books are not listed. The Perilous Seat (1923) is a romance set in ancient Greece and centred on the Delphic Oracle; supernatural elements are ambiguous. [JC]
Caroline Dale Parke Snedeker
born New Harmony, Indiana: 23 March 1871
died Bay St Louis, Mississippi: 22 January 1956
works (highly selected)
- Seth Way: A Romance of the New Harmony Community (Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917) [hb/]
- The Perilous Seat (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1923) [hb/]
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