Emma Speed Sampson

Emma Speed Sampson, (December 1, 1868 – May 7, 1947) was an American author of juvenile fiction and a movie censor.[1]

Emma Speed Sampson
BornEmma Speed
(1868-12-01)December 1, 1868
Louisville, Kentucky
DiedMay 7, 1947(1947-05-07) (aged 78)
Richmond, Virginia
Pen nameNell Speed, Edith Van Dyne
OccupationWriter (novelist)
NationalityAmerican
Period20th century
GenreJuvenile fiction

Biography

Sampson was born on a farm near Louisville, Kentucky. Her mother was Emma Frances Speed who was the daughter of George Keats. She studied art at the Art Students League in New York City. She returned to Louisville where she started teaching. She married Henry Aylett Sampson in 1896. Together they raised two daughters.[2] She and her husband and her sister, Nell Speed, moved to Richmond, Virginia which remained her permanent home. Nell, who was a writer of a series of juvenile books featuring a young woman called Molly Brown, was ill with cancer so she convinced her sister to continue the series after her death.

Sampson continued the series for another three books (Nell wrote the first four) and published them using her sister's name. She wrote several more books using the pseudonym Nell Speed when she switched publishers and began writing under her own name. She wrote a sequel to a book written by another author, Frances Boyd Calhoun. The book was called Billy and the Major. She also continued the "Mary Louise" series started by L. Frank Baum.

Sampson served on the Virginia board of motion picture censors and was a movie reviewer for the Richmond Times-Dispatch. She died in 1947 at the age of 78.[3][4]

Works

Nell Speed
  • Molly Brown's Sophomore Days, (1912)
  • Molly Brown's Post-Graduate Days, (1914)
  • Molly Brown's Orchard Home, (1915)
  • At Boarding School With The Tucker Twins, (1915)
  • Vacation With The Tucker Twins, (1916)
  • The Carter Girls, (1917)
  • Back At School With The Tucker Twins, (1917)
  • Molly Brown Of Kentucky, (1918)
  • The Carter Girls' Weekend Camp, (1918)
  • Tripping With The Tucker Twins, (1919)
  • Molly Brown's College Friends, (1921)
  • The Carter Girls' Mysterious Neighbor, (1921)
  • A House Party With The Tucker Twins, (1921)
  • The Carter Girls Of Carter House, (1924)
  • In New York With The Tucker Twins, (1924)

Edith Van Dyne
  • Mary Louise at Dorfield, (1920)
  • Mary Louise Stands the Test, (1921)
  • Mary Louise and Josie O'Gorman, (1922)
  • Josie O'Gorman, (1923)
  • Josie O'Gorman and the Meddlesome Major, (1924)

Emma Speed Sampson
  • Billy And The Major, (1918)
  • Mammy's White Folks, (1919)
  • Miss Minerva's Baby, (1920)
  • Mary Louise at Dorfield', (1920)
  • Mary Louise Stands the Test, (1921)
  • The Shorn Lamb, (1922)
  • The Comings Of Cousin Ann, (1923)
  • Miss Minerva On The Old Plantation, (1923)
  • Miss Minerva Broadcasts Billy, (1925)
  • Miss Minerva's Scallywags, (1927)
  • Miss Minerva's Neighbors, (1929)
  • Miss Minerva Goin' Places, (1931)
  • Miss Minerva's Cook Book, (1931)
  • Miss Minerva's Mystery, (1933)
  • Miss Minerva's Problem, (1936)
  • Miss Minerva's Vacation, (1939)

Source: [5]

References
  1. Ernst, Morris; Lorentz, Pare (1930). Censored: The Private Life of the Movie. New York: Jonathan Cape. p. 26.
  2. "Emma S Sampson". United States Census (Family Search database). 1920.
  3. Joseph M. Flora; Amber Vogel, eds. (June 21, 2006). Southern Writers: A New Biographical Dictionary. LSU Press. ISBN 9780807131237.
  4. Sargeant, Katherine (November 15, 1929). "Mrs. Emma Speed Sampson Tells of Experiences as Writer". The Monocle. Richmond, Virginia. pp. 1, 4.
  5. "Emma Speed Sampson". Author and Book Info.
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