With its proximity to the cultural hub of New York City and its quieter suburban and rural landscapes, Connecticut was fertile ground for artists and writers in the period of Modernist movements between 1913 and 1979. Many of these cultural figures are well known through biographical and critical studies. Creative Places seeks to show how place played a significant role in creative work, and how in turn the artists and writers influenced communities in Connecticut.
Esther Everett Lape
Journalism/Non-Fiction
1881 – 1981
- Biography/Description of Work
Esther Everett Lape and her partner Elizabeth Fisher Read (1872-1943) were writers, intellectuals, and social activists who came to the Connecticut countryside in search of peaceful places to work. Lape was a graduate of Wellesley College who taught English at the college level and was a journalist, researcher and publicist. She was associated with the Women’s Trade Union League and a founder of the League of Women Voters. Read was Eleanor Roosevelt’s personal attorney and financial advisor, and both women were in her inner circle. Together Read and Lape published the journal ‘City-State-Nation,’ a weekly legislative review in the 1920s and possibly 1930s.
- Sources view
- Chris Wigren research notes on Lape, Read, Eleanor Roosevelt.
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