Name Celia Woolley Role Novelist | Died 1918 | |
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Celia Parker Woolley (June 14, 1848 – March 9, 1918) was a novelist and Unitarian minister from the United States. She also served as a president of the Chicago Woman's Club.
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She was born Celia Parker on June 14, 1848, in Toledo, Ohio. She moved to Coldwater, Michigan when she was young. She later graduated from Coldwater Female Seminary and, in 1868, she married dentist J. H. Woolley, and in 1876 moved to Chicago. The couple had one child who died in adolescence.
Woolley began studies for the ministry, and became pastor of the Unitarian Church of Geneva, Illinois, 1893-1896, being ordained in 1894. She was then pastor of the Independent Liberal Church, Chicago, 1896-98. In 1904 she moved with her husband to Chicago's South Side to do social work. She died there in 1918.
She was active as a lecturer and in the work of women's clubs. This work emphasized literature and related biography. George Eliot and Robert Browning were two interests.