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Adeline Knapp
1860–1909
A lively voice in turn-of-the-century California letters, she wrote with strong opinions, reform-minded energy, and a journalist’s eye for everyday life. Her work moves between fiction, social questions, and public debate, reflecting a career that reached far beyond the page.
7 Audiobooks
The well in the desert
by Adeline Knapp
In the Christmas Woods Being the introductory essay of a series on observations of nature through the year
by Adeline Knapp
This Then is Upland Pastures Being some out-door essays dealing with the beautiful things that the spring and summer bring
by Adeline Knapp
One thousand dollars a day. Studies in practical economics
by Adeline Knapp
The Boy and the Baron
by Adeline Knapp
About the author
Adeline E. "Delle" Knapp (March 14, 1860 – June 6, 1909) was an American journalist, author, social activist, environmentalist, and educator. Born in Buffalo, New York, she became an important figure in the San Francisco Bay Area literary world, where she was known for outspoken writing on social and political issues.
Alongside journalism, she wrote fiction and nonfiction, including work on economics and public life. Her career also extended into education: after the Spanish-American War era, she traveled to the Philippines, where she worked in public instruction and wrote about the islands.
Today, Knapp is remembered both for her writing and for her place in women’s literary and reform history. She was connected to major debates of her time, and her life has drawn renewed interest for its ties to Charlotte Perkins Gilman and to the wider world of progressive-era women writers.