Louise Clappe (née Smith; July 28, 1819 – February 9, 1906) was an American writer, best known for her "Shirley Letters." Clappe was born in New Jersey, spent most of her youth and young adult life in Massachusetts, and later moved out West to Quincy, California, in Plumas County with her husband Fayette Clapp. It was out West where she took on the pen name of Dame Shirley and wrote her widely known "Shirley Letters". Louise and Fayette eventually separated, but she remained out West teaching for some time. Louise eventually returned to New Jersey, where she lived out the remainder of her life, dying in 1906. The Quincy town plaza is named after her. (From Wikipedia)
Also found under:- Clappe, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith
Books about Dame Shirley -- Books by Dame Shirley
Books about Dame Shirley:
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The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 (San Francisco: T. C. Russell, 1922), by Dame Shirley, ed. by Thomas C. Russell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
1 additional book about Dame Shirley in the extended shelves:
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The Shirley letters from California mines in 1851-52, descriptive circular, sample pages, review [issued from the private press of Thomas C. Russell. (San Francisco, Calif., 1922), by Dame Shirley (page images at HathiTrust)
Books by Dame Shirley:
- Shirley, Dame, 1819-1906: The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 (San Francisco: T. C. Russell, 1922), ed. by Thomas C. Russell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
Additional books by Dame Shirley in the extended shelves:
- Shirley, Dame, 1819-1906: California in 1851 [-1852] (The Grabhorn press, 1933), also by Carl I. Wheat and Grabhorn Press (page images at HathiTrust)
- Shirley, Dame, 1819-1906: The Shirley letters from California mines in 1851-52 : being a series of twenty-three letters from Dame Shirley (Mrs. Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe) to her sister in Massachusetts, and now reprinted from the Pioneer magazine of 1854-55 ([Published and] printed by T.C. Russell, 1922), also by Mary V. Tingley. Lawrence and Thomas C. Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
- Shirley, Dame, 1819-1906: The Shirley letters from California mines in 1851-52, descriptive circular, sample pages, review [issued from the private press of Thomas C. Russell. (San Francisco, Calif., 1922) (page images at HathiTrust)
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