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Helen Knipe Carpenter
Born (1881-12-06)December 6, 1881
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
Died February 15, 1959(1959-02-15) (aged 77)
Occupation Illustrator, writer
Years active 1906–1942

Helen Knipe Carpenter (December 6, 1881 – February 15, 1959) was an illustrator and writer active in the early 20th century noted for her Art Nouveau illustrations and her adaptations of stage plays to novels.

Born Helen Alden Knipe on December 6, 1881, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a granddaughter of the novelist T. S. Arthur, she studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under the tutelage of William Merritt Chase, Hugh Henry Brackenridge and Thomas Pollock Anshutz.

She married writer, playwright, and director Edward Childs Carpenter on June 1, 1907, in Philadelphia where they lived and worked for a number of years, summering in Connecticut.

Her works span the period from the late Art Nouveau period through the 1940s.

Works

  • Illustrator
Year Title
1906 Idelle Phelps, Your Health
1907 Dwight Burroughs, Jack, the Giant Killer, Jr. with Elenore Plaisted Abbott
1908 Millicent Olmsted, The Land of Never Was, Being the Adventures of Great-A, Little-a, and Bouncing B with Elenore Plaisted Abbott
1909 Millicent Olmsted, The Land of Really True, Being the Everyday Life of Great-A, Little-a, and Bouncing B with Elenore Plaisted Abbott
1911 Elbridge Hosmer Sabin, The Magical Man of Mirth with Elenore Plaisted Abbott
1911 Elbridge Hosmer Sabin, Queen of the City of Mirth with Elenore Plaisted Abbott
1920 Nathaniel Hawthorne, A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales with Elenore Plaisted Abbott
  • Author
Year Title
1916 The Cinderella Man, A Romance of Youth (book), based on the stage play by Edward Childs Carpenter
1932 Whistling in the Dark (book), based on the stage play by Laurence Gross and Edward Childs Carpenter
1942 Shylock's Daughter (play), with Edward Childs Carpenter

Carpenter died on February 15, 1959, in Litchfield, Connecticut. She and her husband Edward Childs Carpenter are interred in Town Hill Cemetery in New Hartford, Connecticut.

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