Name Genevieve Fox Role Author | Books Bonnie, Island Girl | |
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Genevieve fox
Genevieve May Fox (1888 – October 5, 1959) was an American author, best known for her adventure books for girls that were written in the first half of the twentieth century.
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Life
She was born in Southampton, Massachusetts and studied at Smith College, graduating in 1911. She developed an interest in labour relations and published at least one book on the subject. It was at this time that she appears to have met her future husband, Raymond Garfield Fuller, two years her senior, who was interested in the question of child labour. A journalist and sociologist, he published several papers on the subject and spoke at numerous conferences in the 1930s.
The couple lived at Eaton Center, NH and later in New York City. It was in the thirties and forties that most of Genevieve Fox’s fictional works were produced, beginning with Mountain Girl in 1932, and finishing with Bonnie, Island Girl, which appeared in 1951. Popular in their day, many were translated into other languages.
She died in Bar Harbor, Maine a year before the passing of her husband. She and her husband were buried in Ledgelawn Cemetery, Bar Harbor. They had no children.