Louise Collier Willcox

Louise Collier Willcox (, Collier; pen name, Clarence Wellford; April 24,1865September 13,1929) was an American author, editor, anthologist, translator, and suffragist. During her career, she worked for Harper's Weekly, Harper's Bazaar, North American Review, Macmillan Publishers, and E. P. Dutton & Co. Willcox was the author of several books, and she contributed to several magazines and newspapers, sometimes using a pseudonym. Her publications included, Answers of the Ages, The Human Way, and A Manual of Spiritual Fortification (1910). She died suddenly in Paris, France, age 64.

Early life and education Louise Price Collier was born in Chicago, Illinois, on April 24, 1865. Her parents were Reverend Robert Laird Collier and Mary (Price) Collier.

She was educated by private tutors in France, Germany, and England, and also attended the Conservatory of Leipzig from 1881 to 1882. Her literary training came mainly through personal conversations and study with her father and his friends, among whom were Matthew Arnold, Lord Tennyson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Baron Tauchnitz.

Career On June 25, 1890, in Norfolk, Virginia, she married James Westmore Willcox, a prominent lawyer of that city. They had two children, a daughter, Christine Price Willcox Capelli (18931967) and a son, James Westmore Willcox, Jr. (18941971). The Louise Collier Willcox papers are held by the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia.

Selected works Books

Answers of the Ages, 1900 The Human Way, 1908 A Manual of Spiritual Fortification, 1910 A Manual of Spiritual Verse, 1917 The House in Order, 1917

Essays "The Road to Joy", 1912