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Georgina Pell Curtis 1859 ~ 1922
Georgina Pell Curtis, daughter of Alfred
Leonard and Maria Elizabeth (Hill) Curtis, was born in New York
City, February 19th, 1859. At the age of seven years she lost
her hearing and was educated at the Fort Washington, New York
Deaf and Dumb Institute, and by private tutors. At the age of
thirteen she was sent to St Mary's Protestant Episcopal School,
New York, where she remained until her graduation at the age of
seventeen. At this school she was the only deaf pupil. For five
years after graduation she studied art and worked under
different masters and had almost decided to adopt art as a
profession when it was suggested to her that she should try and
write. This she thought quite impossible, but was urged so
strongly that she made the attempt, and succeeded.
In the meantime, she had joined the Roman Catholic Church, and
it is as a Catholic writer that she is best known. She has
written for all the best Catholic magazines and has brought out
three books "Trammellings," a collection of short
stories of which she is the author; "Some Roads to Rome in
America," and "The American Catholic Who's Who,"
of which she is the editor. Miss Curtis is lineally descended on
the paternal side from Peregrine White, the first child born in
the Mayflower colony.
The first edition of the "American
Catholic Who's Who" appeared in 1911, and the
editor hopes to bring it out every year or two, making it a
permanent record of prominent American Catholics in the United
States, Canada and Europe.
Women of
America
Source: The Part Taken by Women in
American History, By Mrs. John A. Logan, Published by The Perry-Nalle
Publishing Company, Wilmington, Delaware, 1912.
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