Anne Parrish
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Anne Parrish was an American
novelist and author of children's literature
. She was a three-time winner of the Newbery Honor.
She was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado
. Her father was Thomas Clarkson Parrish, who came from an artistic Philadelphia family. Her mother, Anne (née Lodge), had studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, becoming a respected portrait painter
and a friend of Mary Cassatt
in Paris
. Anne Parrish was the elder sister of author Dillwyn Parrish
and cousin to the artist Maxfield Parrish
, who used them as models in some of his paintings. Thomas Parrish was successful in the Colorado mining
business, but died when she was relatively young. Anne Lodge-Parrish then moved the family back to her hometown of Claymont, Delaware
.
As a young woman, Anne Parrish trained at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women
and studied under Thomas Eakins
. However, she chose a career in literature, with her first romantic novel Pocketful of Poses appearing in 1923, the same year she had a children's book
published, with her brother Dillwyn doing the illustration
s. Their collaboration titled Knee-High to a Grasshopper was followed by another book for children in 1924, Lustres. The following year was an extremely successful one for Anne; she won a Newbery Honor for The Dream Coach
, the third collaboration with her brother. That same year, her novel The Perennial Bachelor was the eighth best-selling book for the entire year according to the New York Times and won the Harper Prize from her publisher. An author of stories that mostly featured female protagonists, in 1927, she had another novel make it into the top ten list of bestselling novels in the United States. She repeated on the annual bestsellers list again in 1928 with All Kneeling, that was made into the 1950
film Born to Be Bad
, starring Joan Fontaine
and Robert Ryan
.
Throughout most of her life, Anne Parrish traveled extensively and on a trip to Switzerland
, she and her brother purchased Le Paquis, a cottage in a meadow overlooking Lake Geneva
not far from Lausanne
, between Vevey
and Chexbres
.
In 1915, she married industrialist Charles Albert Corliss, residing in the New York City
area. Her husband died in 1936. Two years later, she married the poet and novelist Josiah Titzell (aka Frederick Lambeck). They made their home in Redding, Connecticut
. After he died in 1943, she continued to live there for the rest of her life.
In the 1920s, Anne and her husband were browsing in a bookstore in Paris when she came upon a special children's book. It was a well-worn edition of Jack Frost and Other Stories. She immediately showed it to her husband, remarking that the story had been one of her favorites as a little girl. Her husband opened the book and was stunned to read the inscription inside: "Anne Parrish, 209 N. Weber Street, Colorado Springs, Colorado."
A wealthy woman, Anne Parish assembled an art collection that included the 1873 Impressionist
painting Monet Painting in His Garden at Argenteuil by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
which she bequeathed to the Wadsworth Atheneum
museum of art in Hartford, Connecticut
.
Anne Parrish died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Danbury, Connecticut
in 1957. She endowed the "Anne Parrish Titzell Professor of Neurology" chair at Cornell University
, originally for research and treatment of mental and emotional disorders.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
novelist and author of children's literature
Children's literature
Children's literature is for readers and listeners up to about age twelve; it is often defined in four different ways: books written by children, books written for children, books chosen by children, or books chosen for children. It is often illustrated. The term is used in senses which sometimes...
. She was a three-time winner of the Newbery Honor.
She was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado
Colorado
Colorado is a U.S. state that encompasses much of the Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains...
. Her father was Thomas Clarkson Parrish, who came from an artistic Philadelphia family. Her mother, Anne (née Lodge), had studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, becoming a respected portrait painter
Portrait
thumb|250px|right|Portrait of [[Thomas Jefferson]] by [[Rembrandt Peale]], 1805. [[New-York Historical Society]].A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness,...
and a friend of Mary Cassatt
Mary Cassatt
Mary Stevenson Cassatt was an American painter and printmaker. She lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists...
in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
. Anne Parrish was the elder sister of author Dillwyn Parrish
Dillwyn Parrish
George Dillwyn Parrish was an American writer, illustrator, and painter.Born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Parrish was usually known by his middle name "Dillwyn", or "Tim" or "Timmy" by those close to him...
and cousin to the artist Maxfield Parrish
Maxfield Parrish
Maxfield Parrish was an American painter and illustrator active in the first half of the twentieth century. He is known for his distinctive saturated hues and idealized neo-classical imagery.-Life:...
, who used them as models in some of his paintings. Thomas Parrish was successful in the Colorado mining
Mining
Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, from an ore body, vein or seam. The term also includes the removal of soil. Materials recovered by mining include base metals, precious metals, iron, uranium, coal, diamonds, limestone, oil shale, rock...
business, but died when she was relatively young. Anne Lodge-Parrish then moved the family back to her hometown of Claymont, Delaware
Claymont, Delaware
Claymont is a census-designated place in New Castle County, Delaware, United States. The population was 9,220 at the 2000 census.-History:...
.
As a young woman, Anne Parrish trained at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women
Philadelphia School of Design for Women
Philadelphia School of Design for Women is a historic building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.-References:...
and studied under Thomas Eakins
Thomas Eakins
Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins was an American realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator...
. However, she chose a career in literature, with her first romantic novel Pocketful of Poses appearing in 1923, the same year she had a children's book
Children's literature
Children's literature is for readers and listeners up to about age twelve; it is often defined in four different ways: books written by children, books written for children, books chosen by children, or books chosen for children. It is often illustrated. The term is used in senses which sometimes...
published, with her brother Dillwyn doing the illustration
Illustration
An illustration is a displayed visualization form presented as a drawing, painting, photograph or other work of art that is created to elucidate or dictate sensual information by providing a visual representation graphically.- Early history :The earliest forms of illustration were prehistoric...
s. Their collaboration titled Knee-High to a Grasshopper was followed by another book for children in 1924, Lustres. The following year was an extremely successful one for Anne; she won a Newbery Honor for The Dream Coach
The Dream Coach
The Dream Coach is a children's book by Anne Parrish. It contains four fairytale-like stories linked by the theme of a Dream Coach which travels around the world bringing dreams to children...
, the third collaboration with her brother. That same year, her novel The Perennial Bachelor was the eighth best-selling book for the entire year according to the New York Times and won the Harper Prize from her publisher. An author of stories that mostly featured female protagonists, in 1927, she had another novel make it into the top ten list of bestselling novels in the United States. She repeated on the annual bestsellers list again in 1928 with All Kneeling, that was made into the 1950
1950 in film
The year 1950 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* February 15 - Walt Disney Studios' animated film Cinderella debuts.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue- Awards :Academy Awards:*Ambush...
film Born to Be Bad
Born to Be Bad (1950 film)
Born to Be Bad is a 1950 melodrama starring Joan Fontaine as a manipulative young woman who will stop at nothing to get what she wants. It was based on the novel All Kneeling by Anne Parrish.-Cast:*Joan Fontaine as Christabel Caine Carey...
, starring Joan Fontaine
Joan Fontaine
Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland , known professionally as Joan Fontaine, is a British American actress. She and her elder sister Olivia de Havilland are two of the last surviving leading ladies from Hollywood of the 1930s....
and Robert Ryan
Robert Ryan
Robert Bushnell Ryan was an American actor who often played hardened cops and ruthless villains.-Early life and career:...
.
Throughout most of her life, Anne Parrish traveled extensively and on a trip to Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
, she and her brother purchased Le Paquis, a cottage in a meadow overlooking Lake Geneva
Lake Geneva
Lake Geneva or Lake Léman is a lake in Switzerland and France. It is one of the largest lakes in Western Europe. 59.53 % of it comes under the jurisdiction of Switzerland , and 40.47 % under France...
not far from Lausanne
Lausanne
Lausanne is a city in Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland, and is the capital of the canton of Vaud. The seat of the district of Lausanne, the city is situated on the shores of Lake Geneva . It faces the French town of Évian-les-Bains, with the Jura mountains to its north-west...
, between Vevey
Vevey
Vevey is a town in Switzerland in the canton Vaud, on the north shore of Lake Geneva, near Lausanne.It was the seat of the district of the same name until 2006, and is now part of the Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut District...
and Chexbres
Chexbres
Chexbres is a municipality in the Swiss canton Vaud, located in the district of Lavaux. Chexbres is a wine-growing village and enjoys a good selection of local vintages...
.
In 1915, she married industrialist Charles Albert Corliss, residing in the New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
area. Her husband died in 1936. Two years later, she married the poet and novelist Josiah Titzell (aka Frederick Lambeck). They made their home in Redding, Connecticut
Redding, Connecticut
Mark Twain, a resident of the town in his old age, contributed the first books for a public library which was eventually named after him.-Government:...
. After he died in 1943, she continued to live there for the rest of her life.
In the 1920s, Anne and her husband were browsing in a bookstore in Paris when she came upon a special children's book. It was a well-worn edition of Jack Frost and Other Stories. She immediately showed it to her husband, remarking that the story had been one of her favorites as a little girl. Her husband opened the book and was stunned to read the inscription inside: "Anne Parrish, 209 N. Weber Street, Colorado Springs, Colorado."
A wealthy woman, Anne Parish assembled an art collection that included the 1873 Impressionist
Impressionism
Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement that originated with a group of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s...
painting Monet Painting in His Garden at Argenteuil by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty, and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to...
which she bequeathed to the Wadsworth Atheneum
Wadsworth Atheneum
The Wadsworth Atheneum is the oldest public art museum in the United States, with significant holdings of French and American Impressionist paintings, Hudson River School landscapes, modernist masterpieces and contemporary works, as well as extensive holdings in early American furniture and...
museum of art in Hartford, Connecticut
Hartford, Connecticut
Hartford is the capital of the U.S. state of Connecticut. The seat of Hartford County until Connecticut disbanded county government in 1960, it is the second most populous city on New England's largest river, the Connecticut River. As of the 2010 Census, Hartford's population was 124,775, making...
.
Anne Parrish died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Danbury, Connecticut
Danbury, Connecticut
Danbury is a city in northern Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. It had population at the 2010 census of 80,893. Danbury is the fourth largest city in Fairfield County and is the seventh largest city in Connecticut....
in 1957. She endowed the "Anne Parrish Titzell Professor of Neurology" chair at Cornell University
Cornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
, originally for research and treatment of mental and emotional disorders.