EMILIE LORING REFERENCE PAGE
Information
about early 20th century romance writer Emilie Loring
Created on November 1, 2001
Updated on June 24, 2002
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Basic
biographical information (From Something About the Author, vol. 51):
Born about 1864, in Boston, Mass.; died March 14, 1951, in Wellesley, Mass.; daughter of George M. (a playwright and publisher) and Emily Frances (Boles) Baker; married Victor J. Loring (a lawyer); children: Robert Melville Loring, Selden Melville Loring.
Novels, all originally published by Penn and republished by Grosset in 1961:
The Trail of Conflict 1922
Here Comes the Sun! (illustrated by Paul Gill) 1924
A Certain Crossroad (illustrated by R. Pellen Coleman) 1925
The Solitary Horseman 1927
Swift Water 1929
Lighted Windows 1930
Uncharted Seas 1932
Hilltops Clear 1933
With Banners 1934
We Ride the Gale! 1934
It’s a Great World! 1935
Give Me One Summer 1936
As Long As I Live 1937
Novels, all originally published by Little, Brown and republished by Grosset in 1961:
High of Heart 1938
Today Is Yours 1938
Across the Years 1939
There is Always Love 1940
Where Beauty Dwells 1941
Stars in Your Eyes 1941
Rainbow at Dusk 1942
When Hearts Are Light Again 1943
Keepers of the Faith 1944
Beyond the Sound of Guns 1945
Bright Skies 1946
Beckoning Trails 1947
I Hear Adventure Calling 1948
Love Came Laughing By 1949
To Love and to Honor 1950
Note: “Shortly after her death in 1951, Loring’s two sons discovered a large amount of unfinished materials…that were developed into romantic novels.” Something About the Author, vol. 51
For All Your Life 1952
I Take This Man 1954
My Dearest Love 1954
The Shadow of Suspicion 1955
What Then Is Love 1956
Look to the Stars 1957
Behind the Cloud 1958
With This Ring 1959
Novels, all published by Little, Brown:
How Can the Heart Forget? 1960
Throw Wide the Door 1961
Follow Your Heart 1963
A Candle in Her Heart 1964
Forever and a Day 1965
Spring Always Comes 1966
A Key to Many Doors 1967
In Times Like These 1958
Love With Honor 1969
No Time For Love 1970
Forsaking All Others 1971
The Shining Years 1972
For summaries of Emilie Loring’s novels, click here.
Other (Under pseudonym Josephine Story)
For the Comfort of the Family: A Vacation Experiment, G. H. Doran, 1914
The Mother in the Home, Pilgrim, 1917
Play
Where’s Peter?, Penn, 1928
Under the pseudonym of “Josephine Story:”
“Rush order for fancy
dress.” St. Nicholas magazine,
Vol. 41, p. 977, September 1914.
“Gossip; an endless
chain.” St. Nicholas magazine,
Vol. 42, p. 508-9, April 1915.
“The delicate art of being
a mother-in-law.” Woman’s Home Companion magazine, vol. 46, p. 100, June 1919.
As Emilie Loring:
“Box from Nixon’s.” Woman’s
Home Companion magazine, vol. 48, p. 9-10, May 1921.
“Glycerine tears.” Delineator magazine, vol. 106, p. 8-9,
March 1925.
Emilie Loring: A Twentieth Century Romanticist, by Dorothea Lawrance Mann. Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Company, 1928.
This is a short (28 pages) biography of Loring, put out by the same company that published her first novels. Loring had had only five books (Gay Courage, The Solitary Horseman, A Certain Crossroad, Here Comes the Sun!, The Trail of Conflict) and one play (Where’s Peter?) published at the time of this biography.
Pitfalls for Readers of Fiction, by Hazel Sample. Chicago: National Council of Teachers of English, [1940].
The author’s premise is
that all fiction writers have certain underlying assumptions, which may not be
clear to the unsuspecting adolescent readers of fiction. She uses Loring’s The Solitary Horseman, along with works by Zane Grey, Gene Stratton-Porter, and Harold Wright
Bell, as examples. She’ll list an
assumption, e.g. “wealth is power,” and indicate how the different stories
illustrate the assumption.
Something
about the author: facts and pictures about authors and illustrators of books
for young people, edited
by Anne Commire. Gale Research, 1988.
Emilie Loring’s entry is
in vol. 51, pp. 103-104. Includes a
picture, a list of her published works, and a short bibliography.
Twentieth-century
romance and gothic writers,
edited by James Vinson. Gale Research,
1982.
Emilie Loring’s entry is
on page 443-5.
Twentieth-century
romance and historical writers,
2nd ed., edited by Lesley Henderson. Chicago, St. James Press, 1990.
Emilie Loring’s entry is
on page 406-407. Includes a list of
her published works and a critical essay by Margaret Jensen.
American Novelists of Today, by Harry R. Warfel. American Book, 1951.
The Papers of Emilie Loring are housed in The Archives, Department of
Special Collections, Boston University, Mugar Memorial Library
Below is information provided by John C. Johnson, Archival Assistant:
The Emilie Loring Collection is available for use by anyone who wishes to view it. It order to use a collection we only ask that patrons give us at least two days notice before they arrive. The Department’s hours are 9AM to 5PM, Monday through Friday, and we are located at 771 Commonwealth Avenue on the 5th floor of BU’s Mugar Memorial Library.
The collection contains manuscripts of eleven novels, over ten short stories, a number of non-fiction works, and fragments of written pieces. We also hold some correspondence, business documents, and photographs of EL. Finally, we hold a number of printed magazine articles by EL as well as several about her. The collection also contains a number of EL’s books including some foreign editions.
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Information about Emilie Loring on a genealogy forum about the Loring family (warning: scroll down to messages about “Author Emilie Baker Loring”)
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