American novelist (born 1854)

Maud Howe Elliott

Maud Howe Elliott was an American novelist, most notable for her Pulitzer Prize-winning collaboration with her sisters, Laura E. Richards and Florence Hall, on their mother's biography The Life of Julia Ward Howe (1916). Her other works included A Newport Aquarelle (1883); Phillida (1891); Kasper Craig (1892); Mammon, later published as Honor: A Novel (1893); Roma Beata, Letters from the Eternal City (1903); Sun and Shadow in Spain (1908);The Eleventh Hour in the Life of Julia Ward Howe (1911); Three Generations (1923); Lord Byron's Helmet (1927); John Elliott, The Story of an Artist (1930); My Cousin, F. Marion Crawford (1934); and This Was My Newport (1944).

Born

1854

November 9

Died

1948

Era

1850s

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694 At the Seventeenth Council of Toledo, Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery.
1180 The Battle of Fujigawa: Minamoto forces (30,000 men) under Minamoto no Yoritomo defeat Taira no Koremori during a night attack near the Fuji River but he escapes safely with the routed army.
1277 The Treaty of Aberconwy, a humiliating settlement forced on Llywelyn ap Gruffudd by King Edward I of England, brings a temporary end to the Welsh Wars.
1307 Knights Templar officer Hugues de Pairaud is forced to confess during the Trials of the Knights Templar. He was persecuted on the charges of false idolism and sodomy.

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The world in 1948

When Maud departed

april 1 Cold War: Communist forces respond to the introduction of the Deutsche Mark by attempting to force the western powers to withdraw from Berlin.
april 1 Faroe Islands gain autonomy from Denmark.
april 13 In an ambush, 78 Jewish doctors, nurses and medical students from Hadassah Hospital, and a British soldier, are massacred by Arabs in Sheikh Jarrah. This event came to be known as the Hadassah medical convoy massacre.
april 16 The Organization of European Economic Co-operation is formed.

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Anne Sexton 1928–1974 American poet and academic (died 1974) Ed Wynn 1886–1966 American actor and comedian (born 1886) Florence R. Sabin 1871– American medical scientist (died 1953) French Montana 1984– Moroccan-American rapper Gabrielle Miller 1973– Canadian actress and director Martin Chemnitz 1522–1586 Lutheran theologian and reformer (born 1522) Otfrid Foerster 1873–1941 German neurologist and physician (born 1873) Paul Cameron 1939– American psychologist and academic Peter Lumsden 1829–1918 English general (died 1918)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1854

Alexandru Macedonski 1854–1920 Romanian author and poet (died 1920) Emil von Behring 1854–1917 German physiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1917) Karl Kautsky 1854–1938 Czech-German journalist, philosopher, and theologian (died 1938) Oscar Wilde 1854–1900 Irish playwright, novelist, and poet (born 1854) Paul Ehrlich 1854–1915 German physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1854) Thomas R. Marshall 1854–1925 American politician, 28th Vice President of the United States (born 1854) Victor Babeș 1854– Romanian physician and biologist (died 1926)

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