Nelia Gardner White - New Hartford, CT
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The grave of American author Nelia Gardner White is located in Town Hill Cemetery, off Hoppen Road, in New Hartford, CT.
Waymark Code: WM1196F
Location: Connecticut, United States
Date Posted: 09/10/2019
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The grave of Nelia Gardner White is market by a granite headstone with the incised image of a phoenix bird and a quote from Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1 Act 2, Scene 3. The headstone is inscribed:
NELIA GARDNER
WHITE
1894 - 1957
BUT I TELL YOU, MY LORD FOOL,
OUT OF THIS NETTLE, DANGER,
WE PLUCK THIS FLOWER, SAFELY
Nelia Gardner White was born in Andrews Settlement, PA on 1 November 1, 1894. She attended Syracuse University (1911-13) and the Emma Willard Kindergarten School (1913-15) and became a kindergarten teacher.
During World War II, she wrote articles about England for the British Ministry of Information. Her novel No Trumpet Before Him won an $8,000 prize in the Westminster Press Fiction Contest. She began writing fictional stories for kindergarten children, then four novels for young people, and finally adult fiction. She also wrote hundreds of magazine stories for such publications as: the American, Ladies' Home Journal, People's Home Journal, Midland, McCall's, Pictorial Review, Forum, and Good Housekeeping.
Her writings include:
Mary (1925)
Marge (1926)
Michael (1927)
Jen Culliton (1927)
David Strange (1928)
Joanna Gray (1928)
Kristin (1929)
Tune in the Tree (1929)
Toni of Grand Isle (1930)
Hathaway House (1931)
Mrs. Green's Daughter-In-Law (1932)
This, My House (1933)
Family Affairs (1934)
The Fields of Gomorrah (1935)
The Heaths and the Hubbells (1937)
Daughter of Time (1941)
Brook Willow (1944)
No Trumpet Before Him (1948)
The Pink House (1950)
Woman At the Window (1951)
The Merry Month of May (1952)
The Spare Room (1954)
The Thorn Tree (1955)
A Little More Than Kin (1956)
The Gift and the Giver (1957)
Her filmography includes:
Sentimental Journey (TV Movie) (1984)
Matinee Theatre (TV Series)
The Mask of Venus (story 1958)
Woman at the Window (writer 1956)
The Spare Room (story 1956)
The Gift of Love (article 1958)
Schlitz Playhouse (TV Series)
Bitter Parting (story 1957)
Studio One in Hollywood (TV Series)
The Doctor's Wife (story 1952)
Sentimental Journey: (movie 1946)