Edna Kenton was an American writer and literary critic.
11 Facts About Edna Kenton
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Edna Baldwin Kenton was born in Springfield, Missouri in 1876.
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Edna Kenton attended Drury College, as did her brother Maurice and her sister Mabel, and graduated from the University of Michigan in 1897.
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Edna Kenton worked in Chicago as a young woman, where she knew Theodore Dreiser.
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Edna Kenton served on the advisory board of The Seven Arts, a short-lived but influential literary magazine.
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Edna Kenton wrote some important criticism of Henry James, especially her essay "Henry James to the Ruminant Reader", which introduced a novel reading of The Turn of the Screw.
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Edna Kenton's last publication was an edited collection of Henry James stories.
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Edna Kenton was an active suffragist and a charter member of Heterodoxy, a feminist debating club based in Greenwich Village.
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Edna Kenton served on the executive board of the Provincetown Players, led by fellow Heterodites Eleanor Fitzgerald and Susan Glaspell, and wrote a history of the company, published many years later.
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Edna Kenton wrote a biography of her kinsman, frontiersman Simon Kenton, and several books based on the letters of Jesuit missionaries in North America.
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Edna Kenton died in 1954, age 77; author Leon Edel eulogized her in the New York Times.