| 词条 | Myra Kelly |
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Myra Kelly (1875–1910) was an Irish American schoolteacher and author. LifeKelly was born in Dublin, she came to the United States with her father, a physician who established a practice on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.[1] She attended the Horace Mann School[2] and Teachers College, Columbia University, graduating in 1899.[3] Kelly taught elementary school at Public School 147 from 1899 to 1901.[3] She produced three collections of stories based on her experiences as a teacher. Her character Constance Bailey teaches Irish and Russian Jewish immigrant children. A minor theme within her works is the changing character of the neighborhood and the displacement of Irish immigrant families.[1] After the publishing of her "In Loco Parentis", US President Theodore Roosevelt wrote her a letter of appreciation.[6][4] Kelly married Allan Macnaughton in 1905.[2] Prior to her death, she also wrote the romance novels Rosnah and The Golden Season.[1] Kelly developed tuberculosis and died on March 30, 1910 in Torquay, England.[5] She was 35 years old. Works
References1. ^1 2 {{cite book|last1=Fanning|first1=Charles|title=The Irish Voice in America: 250 Years of Irish-American Fiction|date=2000|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|isbn=978-0-8131-2760-6|page=181|edition=2nd|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RDN6qCkrAxAC&lpg=PA181&dq=Myra%20Kelly&pg=PA181#v=onepage&q&f=false}} 2. ^1 {{cite book|title=Myra Kelly, Originator |work=The Book Buyer |volume=39-40|date=1914|publisher=C. Scribner's Sons|page=77|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rx8xAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Myra%20Kelly%22&pg=PA77#v=onepage&q&f=false}} 3. ^1 {{cite book|title=The Work of Teachers in America: A Social History Through Stories|date=1997|publisher=Taylor and Francis|location=Hoboken|isbn=978-1-135-45934-5|pages=193–194|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=geRTAQAAQBAJ&lpg=PA193&dq=%22Myra%20Kelly%22&pg=PA193#v=onepage&q&f=false}} 4. ^{{cite book|title=Americans All: Stories of American Life of To-Day|publisher=Library of Alexandria|isbn=978-1-4655-2356-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x0nhCxxtjC4C&lpg=PT43&dq=%22Myra%20Kelly%22%20roosevelt&pg=PT43#v=onepage&q&f=false|chapter=Myra Kelly}} 5. ^1 {{cite news|title=Myra Kelly, Writer of Child Life, Dead |work=The New York Times|date=April 1, 1910}} External links
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