Inez Haynes Gillmore Irwin

Inez Haynes Gillmore Irwin was a writer and feminist. Her writing includes history, journalism, editorial work, novels (science fiction, mystery, fiction, children's books), short stories, and juvenile stories (the Maida books).

Biography

Born Inez Haynes, March 2, 1873, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her parents (Gideon Haynes and Emma Jane Hopkins Haynes) were from Boston and returned there while Gillmore was raised. She became involved in the women's suffrage movement at Radcliffe (1897-1900) and belonged to the National Women's Party advisory council. Her first husband, Rufus Gillmore (m. 8/30/1897), was a newspaperman who supported her feminism. Their marriage ultimately ended in divorce. Shortly after her first novel was published she became fiction editor for The Masses, a left-wing magazine. She lived in New York for much of her life. She and her second husband, Will(iam Henry) Irwin (m. 2/1/1916) lived in Europe reporting on World War I. She retired to Scituate, Massachusetts after Irwin's death in 1948. She died September 25, 1970.

Her niece, Phyllis Duganne, 1899-1976, was also a writer and suffragist. Her papers are available at Smith College in the Sophia Smith Collection. See http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/sophiasmith/mnsss87.html.

Generally listed as Inez Haynes Gillmore, but may also be listed as Inez Haynes Irwin.

Inez Haynes' diaries, manuscripts, letters, etc., available at the Yale Archives. Some materials also available on microfilm at the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe, Harvard (M-59; Research Publications, Inc., History of Women, 1975-1979. 24 reels, #966-970, 973-983, 988-995. See http://www.radcliffe.edu/schles/services/microfilm.php . Also the diary from Feb. 19, 1916-Oct. 26, 1916, and her preliminary notes to her autobiography are available at Cornell.

Profiled in Time, Oct. 8, 1923, Vol. II, No. 6, "Their Wives Are Literary, Too," as wife of Will Irwin.

Their Wives Are Literary, Too Wallace (47) and Will Irwin (50) are brothers of more popular success, certainly, than the poetic Benet brothers (TIME, Oct. 1). Of late years Will Irwin has devoted much of his time to the spreading of peace propaganda throughout the U. S. Wallace has been busy writing short stories and novels. His latest, Lew Tyler's Wives, is a study of the two marriages of one delightful but irresponsible gentleman.Their wives, too, are of the literary persuasion: Inez Haynes Irwin writes girls' stories and novels, and Mrs. Wallace Irwin writes plays, to say nothing of Mr....

Associations

• Author's Guild of America, President, 1931-1933 (1925-1928?)
• Author's Guild of America, Vice-President, 1930-1931
• National Collegiate Equal Suffrage League (co-founder)
• Chairman of Board of Directors of the World Center for Women's Archives 1936-1938/1940.
• Member of American committee of Prix Femina, 1931-1933
• Member, Cosmpolitan
• Member, Heterodoxy
• Member, Query

Bibliography

• Angel Island (1914)
• "The Father of His Son" (short story) Everybody's Magazine, July 1904
• "A Doorstep Introduction" (short story) Pearson's Magazine, Nov. 1904
• "Love Me, Love My Dog" (short story) Pearson's Magazine, Nov. 1904
• "The Start" (short story) Everybody's Magazine, Dec. 1904
• "The Matchbreakers" (short story) Hampton's Broadway Magazine, Nov. 1908
• June Jeopardy 1908, Huebsch - first novel
• Maida's Little Shop 1910, Huebsch - children's. Available online at Project Gutenberg.
• Phoebe and Ernest 1910, Holt - originally serialized by American Magazine, for young people. Illustrations by R. F. Schabelitz.
• Janey: being the record of a short interval in the journey through life and the struggle with society of a little girl of nine 1911, Holt
• "The Eternal Challenge" Everybody's Magazine, Jan. 1912
• "With Pitfall and With Gin" (short story) Pictorial Review, Feb. 1912
• Phoebe, Ernest, and Cupid 1912, Holt. Illustrations by R. F. Schabelitz.
• Angel Island 1914, Holt; reprinted 1978, Arno; re-released 1988, NAL Plume with an introduction by Ursula K. Le Guin; Available online (public domain)
• The Ollivant Orphans 1915, Holt
• "The Woman Across the Street" (short story) Ladies Home Journal, Sept. 1916
• "The Sixth Canvassar" (short story) The Century, Jan. 1916. Republished in What Did Miss Darrington See?: An Anthology Feminist Supernatural Fiction, ed. Jessica Amanda Salmonson, 1989
• The Californiacs 1916, A. M. Robertson - travel. Available online with Project Gutenberg.
• The Lady of Kingdoms 1917, George H. Doran - working-class feminist novel
• The Happy Years 1919, Holt
• The Native Son 1919, A. M. Robertson - also about California. Available online at Project Gutenberg.
• Out of the Air 1921, Harcourt
• Maida's Little House 1921, Grosset - children's
• The Story of the Women's Party 1921, Harcourt; published as Up Hill With Banners Flying, 1964, Traversity Press; original edition reprinted 1971, Kraus Reprint - history of the suffragists
• "The Last Cartridge" (ss) McCall's Oct. 1922
• The Lost Diana" (novella) Everybody's Magazine Jun 1923
• "The Spring Flight" 1924 - short story. Won O. Henry Memorial Prize, 1924.
• "The Irish Language" (ss) Everybody's Magazine Jul 1925
• Discarded" (serial segment) The American Magazine May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov 1925
• Gertrude Haviland's Divorce" 1925, Harper
• Maida's Little School 1926, Viking Press.
• Gideon 1927, Harper
• P.D.F.R.: A New Novel 1928, Harper
• Family Circle 1931, Bobbs-Merrill
• Youth Must Laugh 1932, Bobbs-Merrill
• Angels and Amazons: A Hundred Years of American Women 1933, Doubleday; reprinted 1974, Arno
• Strange Harvest 1934, Bobbs-Merrill
• Murder Masquerade 1935, H. Smith & R. Haas - murder mystery
• Little Miss Redhead 1936, Lothrop - self-illustrated
• The Poison Cross Mystery 1936, H. Smith & R. Haas
• Good Manners for Girls 1937, Appleton-Century
• A Body Rolled Downstairs 1938, Random House - murder mystery
• "You Bet I Am!" (article) Woman's Day, Oct. 1938
• Maida's Little Island 1939, Grosset - children's
• Maida's Little Camp 1940, Grosset - children's
• Many Murders 1941, Random House
• Peter and Cynthia 1941, Lothrop - self-illustrated. (questionable - need to have title verified)
• Maida's Little Village 1942, Grosset - children's
• Maida's Little Houseboat 1943, Grosset - children's
• Maida's Little Theater 1946, Grosset - children's
• The Women Swore Revenge 1946, Random House
• Maida's Little Cabins 1947, Grosset - children's
• Maida's Little Zoo 1949, Grosset - children's
• Maida's Little Lighthouse 1951, Grosset - children's
• Maida's Little Hospital 1952, Grosset - children's
• Maida's Little Farm 1953, Grosset - children's
• Maida's Little House Party 1954, Grosset - children's
• Maida's Little Treasure Hunt 1955, Grosset - children's
• Adventures of Yesterday 1973, General Microfilm - autobiography.

• Why the Woman's Party Is for It, (ar) Good Housekeeping Mar 1924
• Over the Horizon— On Wheels" (ss) Colliers, June 20, 1925
• "Street Episode", (ss) Liberty Magazine Apr 20 1929
• Freesia, (ss) The American Magazine Sep 1929
• The Perpetual Substitute, (ss) The American Magazine Oct 1929
• Rebound, (ss) The American Magazine Mar 1930
• Night of the Pact, (ss) Pictorial Review Mar 1930
• Middle Sister, (ss) Pictorial Review Apr 1932
• Betty Cleans Up, (ss) Good Housekeeping May 1932
• Second Choice, (ar) Liberty Magazine Jan 8 1938
• "Time", (ar) Cosmopolitan Jul 1938
• Some Call It Extra Sensory Perception, (ar) Cosmopolitan Mar 1939

Further reading

• Maida's Little Website
• Information about Maida bindings