Peattie moved to Chicago from Michigan in her childhood and attended local schools there. She began writing short stories and became a reporter on various Chicago daily newspapers until 1888 when she moved to Nebraska with her huisband and became the editorial writer for the Omaha World-Herald. From 1901 to 1917 she was the literary critic for the Chicago Tribune. Peattie was a prolific writer and produced hundreds of short stories and essays. Her works include Lotta Embury's Career (1915), The Newcomers (1916), Sarah Brewster's Relations (1916), Memory's Painted Windows (1919), The Wander Weed (1923) and Songs From a Southern Garden (1923).
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AEWP003
Memory's Painted Windows
1919
28
180k
AEWP002
A Mountain Woman
Jim Lancy’s Waterloo
A Lady of Yesterday
A Michigan Man
A Mountain Woman
A Resuscitation
The Three Johns
Two Pioneers
Up the Gulch
1896
67
367k
AEWP001
The Precipice
1914
177
756k
AEWP004
The Shape of Fear & Other Ghostly Tales
An Astral Onion
A Child of the Rain
From the Loom of the Dead
A Grammatical Ghost
The House That Was Not
On the Northern Ice
Story of An Obstinate Corpse
The Piano Next Door
The Room of the Evil Thought
The Shape of Fear
A Spectral Collie
Their Dear Little Ghost
Story of the Vanishing Patient
1898
43
244k
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