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Indiana Authors and their books, 1816-1980.
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THORPE, ROSE HARTWICK (MRs. EDMUND CARSON): 1850-1939.

Among the greatest contributions to the repertoire of the elocutionist, whose art thrilled the front parlor gatherings and church sociables of America in the late Nineteenth century, was that sterling composition "Curfew Must Not Ring To-night." Many an amateur well-nigh blinded himself with eye-rolling and wrecked his vocal cords in the changes of pace attendant upon its rendition. It was a classic of its kind and it was written by a daughter of Mishawaka, Ind.

She was Rose Hartwick , daughter of William and Mary Hartwick, born in Mishawaka, Ind., on July 18, 1850. She was graduated in 1868 from the high school in Litchfield, Mich., where her family had moved when she was ten years old.

Miss Hartwick's literary career began at its very pinnacle, with the writing of "Curfew Must Not Ring To-night" in her twentieth year. The poem was published in a Detroit newspaper in 1870 and attracted immediate attention. She married Edmund Carson Thorpe on Sept. 11, 1871, and continued with her writing. By 1881 she was editing three Sunday-school papers in Chicago and she continued as editor and later contributor to journals and magazines from 1880 until her death on July 19, 1939.

Mrs. Thorpe's last years were spent with her family in San Diego, Calif.

Information from Who Was Who in America and Appletons" Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. VI.

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