Lucia Runkle

Lucia Isabella Runkle (née Gilbert; August 20, 1844 – 1922), was an editorial writer and contributor to the ''New York Tribune'' and ''Harper's''. She was one of the first women editorialists at a major American newspaper.

Biography

Runkle was born in North Brookfield, Massachusetts and educated in Fall River and Worcester, Massachusetts. She moved to New York City and for many years she was an editorial writer and contributor to the ''New-York Tribune'', in which she published a series of articles on cooking, treated from an artistic standpoint. She also wrote frequently for other journals and for magazines including the '' Christian Union'', later '' The Outlook.'' For ten years, Runkle was the literary adviser of Harper & Brothers, her work including French and German manuscripts and books, as well as English. In 1893, she undertook, with Charles Dudley Warner and others, the enormous labor which is represented in the thirty volumes of '' Library of the World's Best Literature''.''Sunset, Volume 14'' (1905)

She was quoted in support of '' The Woman's Advocate'' publication. She corresponded with Helen Hunt Jackson.

Personal life

In the early 1860s, she had an affair with future president James Garfield, who ended the affair after his wife learned of it.

In 1862, she married a Mr. Calhoun. Her second marriage, in 1869, was to Cornelius Runkle, a customs official and lawyer for the ''New-York Tribune''. Their daughter Bertha Runkle authored '' The Helmet of Navarre'' and four other novels.

Selected works

*Modern Women and What is Said of Them: A Reprint of a Series of Articles in the Saturday Review, by E. Lynn Linton, J. S. Redfield, New York (1868), contributor
*''Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern'', New York, R. S. Peale and J. A. Hill, (c1896-97), contributor

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1844 births
1922 deaths
People from North Brookfield, Massachusetts
19th-century American journalists
19th-century American women journalists
19th-century American non-fiction writers
Mistresses of presidents of the United States