Carrie Stevens Walter

Carrie Stevens Walter

Carrie Stevens Walter (27 April 1846 - 1907) was an American educator and poet from the U.S. state of Missouri.

Early years and education

Carrie Stevens was born in Savannah, Missouri, 27 April 1846. She went to the Pacific coast with her parents ten years later, and lived in California thereafter. She inherited her poetic talent from her father, the late Josiah E. Stevens, who was at one time a leading Mason and politician of California. Carrie is the oldest of six children, and at an early age showed he's leaning toward literary pursuits. She was educated in the Oakland Female Seminary, and at 18 years of age, was the valedictorian of the first graduating class of that institution. Many of her verses had already found their way into leading periodicals of the West Coast.^[1]

Career

Walter soon achieved a popularity in California's social circles, and she became a Roman Catholic. Her sympathetic appreciation of children made her one of California's most successful teachers. After teaching for 20 years, she turned her attention to literature while caring for her four children. In 1886, her "Santa Barbara Idyl" was published in book form. She also wrote for newspapers and magazines, as well as advertisements, commercials, "write-ups," short stories, and serials.^[2] Walter made her home in Santa Clara County.^[1]

Selected works

• A Panama Riot
• Unrest
• 1886, An idyl of Santa Barbara
• 1890, The early California missions
• 1890, Rose-ashes, and other poems
• 1893, Souvenir of Leland Stanford Jr. University
• 1894, Hotel Vendome, San Jose, California
• 1897, ... In California's garden : Santa Clara Valley
• 1897, Santa Clara Valley
• 1904, Santa Clara County, California

References

Attribution

• This article incorporates text from a work in the public domain: E. S. Cummins' The Story of the Files: A Review of California Writers and Literature (1893)
• This article incorporates text from a work in the public domain: F. E. Willard's A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life (1893)

Bibliography

• Cummins, Ella Sterling (1893). The Story of the Files: A Review of California Writers and Literature (Public domain ed.). Cooperative Printing Company. 
• Willard, Frances Elizabeth (1893). A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life (Public domain ed.). Moulton.