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Abbe Carter Goodloe
1874–1960
A Kentucky-born writer with a sharp eye for college life and social comedy, she published fiction, poetry, and plays from the 1890s into the early 20th century. Her work also reached the screen when one of her stories became the basis for a 1935 film.
2 Audiobooks
College girls
by Abbe Carter Goodloe
Calvert of Strathore
by Abbe Carter Goodloe
About the author
Born in Versailles, Kentucky, Abbe Carter Goodloe was an American writer who was also credited as A. Carter Goodloe or Carter Goodloe. She studied at Wellesley College and began publishing while still young, building a career that ranged across fiction, poetry, drama, and magazine work.
She is especially remembered for College Girls (1895), a lively early book illustrated by Charles Dana Gibson. Over the years she also published novels, short stories, and plays, showing an interest in relationships, manners, and the expectations placed on women in her era.
Goodloe lived a long life that stretched from the 19th century well into the 20th, and her writing found new audiences in different forms. One of her stories, "Claustrophobia," was later adapted into the film I Live My Life (1935), a reminder of how adaptable and readable her work remained.