Cornelia Stratton Parker

Born in 1885, Cornelia Stratton Parker was an American author whose surviving books show an unusually wide range. Confirmed works include An American Idyll: The Life of Carleton H. Parker (1919) and Working with the Working Woman (1922), and library records also list later titles such as Watching Europe Grow, Wanderer's Circle, and English Summer.

Her best-known book, An American Idyll, is a biography of Carleton H. Parker written from a deeply personal point of view. In Working with the Working Woman, she turned to everyday labor and women’s employment, suggesting a writer interested not only in people she loved, but also in how ordinary lives were shaped by work and society.

The available records identify her as Cornelia Stratton Parker, 1885–1972. While detailed biographical information is limited in the sources found here, her books leave a clear impression of a writer drawn to real lives, travel, and the social questions of her time.