{"id":2188,"date":"2019-08-02T20:43:09","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T20:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/mwwc\/?post_type=collection&#038;p=2188"},"modified":"2025-05-23T10:29:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T14:29:30","slug":"louise-lamprey-collection-1934-1935","status":"publish","type":"collection","link":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/mwwc\/collections\/collections-a-z\/louise-lamprey-collection-1934-1935\/","title":{"rendered":"Louise Lamprey collection, 1934-1935"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/mwwc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/LouiseLampreyCollection.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Full finding aid (pdf)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Collection Scope and Content<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The collection consists of biographical newspaper articles, and a typescript of four stories by Lamprey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Biographical\/Historical Note<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Lunette Emeline Lamprey (penname Louise Lamprey) was born in 1869 in Alexandria, New Hampshire. Her father was a minister. She graduated in 1891 from Mount Holyoke College as a member of its first graduating class. Lamprey went on to become one of the first woman editors of a Washington, D.C. newspaper, <em>The Capitol<\/em>. She also lectured at a series of New England summer camps, including Laughing Loon Camp in East Waterboro, Maine and Limerick Campfire Girls. These experiences led Lamprey towards writing children&#8217;s books, specifically historical fiction, including <em>In the Days of the Guild<\/em>, <em>Masters of the Guild<\/em>, <em>The Treasure Valley <\/em>and<em> The Tomahawk Trail<\/em>. Lamprey also wrote about architecture, including her book, <em>All the Ways of Building<\/em> (1933). Although she traveled extensively, she spent the majority of her life in Limerick, Maine as a local celebrity, the alliterative &#8220;Louise Lamprey of Limerick&#8221;. She died in 1951.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When once asked about her writing and characters, Lamprey said, &#8220;People walk into my stories and sometime prove to be better than those I had planned. In a way&#8230;my books write themselves. When I sit down at my typewriter, I never know what is to come. Endings sometimes astonish me. Nor do I believe that authors who put their acquaintances into novels are as successful, as a rule, as those who make their characters up.&#8221;    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","collection-category":[],"class_list":["post-2188","collection","type-collection","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/mwwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection\/2188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/mwwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/mwwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/collection"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/mwwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection\/2188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7267,"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/mwwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection\/2188\/revisions\/7267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/mwwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"collection-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/mwwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection-category?post=2188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}