page_title: Rose Hartwick Thorpe
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Rose Hartwick Thorpe / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: This is the cover art that I scanned for the Public domain book Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight published in 1882, a poemic book written by Rose Hartwick Thorpe. This shows the era and style of the book which was publication in the 1890's.
context_page_description: Rose Hartwick Thorpe was an American poet and writer, remembered largely for the narrative poem, Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight, which gained national popularity. It was translated into nearly every language of the world, and was universally recognized as a veritable classic. Other poems followed, among them being "The Station Agent's Story," "Red Cross," and "In a Mining Town." Although a busy and prolific author, she was ill for some years. In 1888, she and her family removed to San Diego, California, living in Rosemere, Pacific Beach.
context_section_description: She began her literary career while still a school-girl in Litchfield by the publication of the ballad, "Curfew Must Not Ring To night" in the Detroit Commercial Advertiser, which immediately obtained enthusiastic recognition throughout the country. The prose sketch was based on a legendary incident of the time of Oliver Cromwell, in April 1867. It was her first publication.
  In 1871, she married Edmund Carson Thorpe, a writer of German dialect recitations.
  For a number of years, she contributed regularly to leading magazines and weeklies popular short stories and poems. Her best known shorter poems are "The Station Agent's Story" and "Remember the Alamo." Others include "In a Mining Town" and "Red Cross". During 1881–82, she edited several publications for Fleming H. Revell, of Chicago. She was particularly successful with her stories for young people. Her published books are: Fred's Dark Days (1881); The Yule Log (1881); The Fenton Family (1884); Nina Bruce; or, A Girl's Influence (1886); Temperance Poems (1886); The Chester Girls (1887); Ringing Ballads (1887); The Year's Best Days (1888); and Sweet Song Stories (1898). The Year's Best Days, for Boys and Girls was a collection of stories in prose and in verse, for young people. "New Year's Day", "St. Valentine's Day", "April Fool's Day", "Easter Day", "Thanksgiving Day", "Birthday", "Christmas", were the subjects covered by Thorpe. The series of entertaining stories for children, also included poetry and illustrations. In 1882, an illustrated edition of "Curfew Must Not Ring To-night" was issued. Nearly all of her books were profusely illustrated, including by her daughter, Mrs. Lulo Thorpe Barnes.
  In 1904, Thorpe wrote about the White Lady Cave in San Diego-La Jolla Underwater Park in California. Visitors inside the cave could see the outline of a lady in the rock formations and local legend claimed a bride was trapped in the cave before her death. In The White Lady of La Jolla, Thorpe described: "She is robed in shimmering garments of light, wrapped in a misty veil, and on her head is a wreath like a coronet of orange blossoms."
caption: Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight
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