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Grace Gallatin Seton Thompson

1872 – 1959

American author and suffragist

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Lived 1872 – 1959 (aged 87). Grace Gallatin Seton Thompson was an American writer and suffragist.

Grace Gallatin Seton Thompson (January 28, 1872 – March 19, 1959) was an American writer and suffragist.

Early life and education Grace Gallatin was born in Sacramento, California on January 28, 1872. In 1888 she began writing articles for San Francisco newspapers under the pen name of Dorothy Dodge, and in 1892 graduated from Packer Collegiate Institute, in Brooklyn, NY. She later organized and directed a women's motor unit to aid soldiers in France during the first World War. She also wrote The Singing Traveler (1947), a collection of poems about mysticism and eastern religions.

Grace had married Ernest in 1896; she separated from him by the late 1920s, and they divorced in 1935.

Death Seton died in Palm Beach, Florida on March 19, 1959.

Legacy Some of her papers are held in the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, and some are held at Smith College in the Sophia Smith Collection.

Books A Woman Tenderfoot (1900) Doubleday, Page and Co. Nimrod's Wife (1907) Doubleday, Page and Co. Woman Tenderfoot in Egypt (1923) New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. Chinese Lanterns (1924) New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. [published in London in 1924 by John Lane, Bodley Head] "Yes, Lady Saheb": A Woman's Adventurings with Mysterious India (1925) New York and London: Harper and Brothers Log of the "Look-See" A Half-Year in the Wilds of Matto Grosso and the Paraguayan Forest, Over the Andes to Peru (1932) London: Hurst & Blackett, Ltd. Magic Waters: Through the Wilds of Matto Grosso and Beyond (1933) New York: E.P. Dutton & Co, Inc. Poison Arrows: Strange Journey with an Opium Dealer: Annam, Cambodia, Siam and the Lotus Isle of Bali (1936) London: J. Gifford Ltd. Partial Survey of Women's Work in the Literary Field (1939) New York (with the National Council of Women of the United States and the International Council of Women) Biblioteca Femina (1939) (with Northwestern University Library, the National Council of Women of the United States, and the International Council of Women) The Singing Traveler (1947) Boston: The Christopher Publishing House

Books with Ernest Thompson Seton The Trail of the Sandhill Stag (1899) New York: Charles Scribner's Sons The Biography of a Grizzly (1899) New York: Grosset & Dunlap Two Little Savages Being the Adventures of Two Boys Who Lived as Indians and What They Learned (1904) London: Archibald Constable & Co. Ltd. Animal Heroes (1905) New York: Grosset & Dunlap Woodmyth & Fable (1905) New York: The Century Co. The Biography of a Silver Fox, or, Domino Reynard of Goldur Town (1909) London: A. Constable Wild Animal Ways (1917) London and New York: Hodder and Stoughton The Biography of a Grizzly (1918) The Century Co. Wild Animals at Home (1926) London: Hodder and Stoughton The Trail of the Sandhill Stag (1929) New York: C. Scribner's Sons

Musical scores "My Love Is a Blossom, Heigh O!" (1927) New York City: E. Morris Music Pub Co. (with Marianne Genet) "Lotus Blossom" (1927) New York City: E. Morris Music Pub Co. (with Marianne Genet) "A Canton Boat Woman" (1927) New York City: E. Morris Music Pub Co. (with Marianne Genet) "Lily of Arcadie" (1932) New York: H.W. Gray (with Marianne Genet)

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American author and suffragist (1872–1959)

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Grace Gallatin Seton Thompson was born on 28 January 1872 in Sacramento.

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Grace Gallatin Seton Thompson died on 19 March 1959 in Palm Beach.

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Grace Gallatin Seton Thompson was a writer and suffragist.

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