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Cornelia Stratton Parker
1885–1972
A writer of travel, labor, and memoir, she is best remembered for the deeply personal portrait she drew of her husband in An American Idyll. Her work carries the feel of lived experience, mixing social observation with warmth and directness.
2 Audiobooks
Working With the Working Woman
by Cornelia Stratton Parker
An American Idyll: The Life of Carleton H. Parker
by Cornelia Stratton Parker
About the author
Born in Oakland, California, in 1885, Cornelia Stratton Parker became an American author whose books ranged across travel writing, social questions, and biography. Reliable catalog and reference sources credit her with works including Working with the Working Woman, Wanderer's Circle, Watching Europe Grow, and An American Idyll, showing a career that moved comfortably between public issues and personal narrative.
She is most closely associated with An American Idyll: The Life of Carleton H. Parker, her account of the economist and labor expert Carleton H. Parker, whom she married. Reference sources note that much of what is known about her life comes through that book, which gives her writing an unusually intimate and first-hand quality.
Parker died in 1972. Even with the limited biographical record now easy to confirm, her surviving books suggest a writer interested in work, travel, and the human side of modern life.