Mary Sifton Pepper

Mary Sifton Pepper (born about 1862; died 1908) was an American journalist and translator, author of Maids and Matrons of New France (1901), an early work in Canadian women's history.

Mary Sifton Pepper
Bornc. 1862
Died1908
OccupationJournalist, translator
Notable work
Maids and Matrons of New France

Early life

Pepper was the daughter of George Whitfield Pepper and Christine Lindsay Pepper. Her parents were both born in Ireland; her father, who served as a chaplain in the American Civil War,[1][2] was a clergyman, writer, and diplomat.[3][4] She lived in Milan from 1891 to 1895,[5] and traveled in Europe while her father was based there.[6]

Mary Sifton Pepper graduated from the College of Wooster in Ohio, in 1883.[6][7] Her brother Charles M. Pepper[8] and her sisters Caroline Lipton Pepper[9] and Lena Lindsay Pepper were also writers.[5]

Career

In the 1890s Pepper was a translator of French and Italian on the 73-volume edition of The Jesuit Relations,[10] documents related to the work of European Jesuit missionaries in North America.[6] From her experience on that project, she wrote Maids and Matrons of New France (1901),[11] an early work in Canadian women's history.[12][13] Her book was praised as "a volume which is not only peculiarly absorbing but which in the main covers unbroken ground."[14]

As a journalist, she wrote a profile of Queen Margherita of Italy for Godey's Magazine in 1896.[15] She also wrote a biographical article on Italian poet Giosuè Carducci.[16]

Personal life

Pepper lived in Cleveland, Ohio.[5] She died in 1908.[12]

References
  1. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. J.T. White. 1906. p. 204.
  2. Pepper, George Whitfield (1868). Ireland ... Liberty springs from her martyr's blood. Boston: Patrick Donahoe. hdl:2027/loc.ark:/13960/t0ms47g4x.
  3. Minutes of the ... Annual Session of the North Ohio Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Cleveland Printing & Publishing Company. 1889. pp. 76–78.
  4. "Rev. George W. Pepper Died in Cleveland". The San Francisco Call. 1899-08-07. p. 2. Retrieved 2020-05-25 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Mary Sifton Pepper". Book News. 20: 573. March 1902.
  6. "Highways and Byways". The Chautauquan. 32: 13–14. October 1900.
  7. "Alumni Banquet". The Wooster Voice. June 18, 1903. Retrieved May 24, 2020.
  8. Who's who in the Nation's Capital. Consolidated Publishing Company. 1921. p. 305.
  9. "Death of a Bright Lady Journalist". The Summit County Beacon. 1890-05-28. p. 7. Retrieved 2020-05-25 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. Thwaites, Reuben Gold (1897). The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the Jesuit Missionaries in New France, 1610-1791; the Original French, Latin, and Italian Texts, with English Translations and Notes; Illustrated by Portraits, Maps, and Facsimiles. Burrows brothers Company.
  11. Pepper, Mary Sifton (1901). Maids and matrons of New France. Robarts - University of Toronto. Boston : Little, Brown.
  12. Dagg, Anne Innis (2006-01-01). The Feminine Gaze: A Canadian Compendium of Non-Fiction Women Authors and Their Books, 1836-1945. Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. p. 238. ISBN 978-0-88920-845-2.
  13. Coates, Colin MacMillan; Morgan, Cecilia Louise (2002-01-01). Heroines and History: Representations of Madeleine de Verchères and Laura Secord. University of Toronto Press. p. 62. ISBN 978-0-8020-8330-2.
  14. Gilder, Jeannette Leonard; Gilder, Joseph Benson (Christmas 1901). "The Book Buyers' Guide". The Critic. 39: 580.
  15. Pepper, Mary Sifton (May 1896). "Queen Margherita at Monza". Godey's Magazine. 132: 525–529.
  16. Shaw, Albert (March 1897). "Other Articles". Review of Reviews. 15: 363.
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