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Edith Wyatt
1873–1958
A Chicago writer with close ties to Hull House, she brought sharp observation and warmth to stories, essays, and poems about everyday American life. Her work moved in the orbit of the city’s reform and literary circles while keeping a clear, human scale.
3 Audiobooks
Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories; Second Series
by Mary Antin, Elizabeth Ashe, Kathleen Carman, Cornelia A. P. (Cornelia Atwood Pratt) Comer, Mazo De la Roche, Annie Hamilton Donnell, James Edmund Dunning, Rebecca Hooper Eastman, William Addleman Ganoe, Lucy Huffaker, Joseph Husband, S. H. Kemper, Christina Krysto, Ellen Mackubin, Edith Ronald Mirrielees, Margaret Prescott Montague, Edward Morlae, Meredith Nicholson, Kathleen Thompson Norris, Laura Spencer Portor, Lucy Pratt, Elsie Singmaster, Charles Haskins Townsend, Edith Wyatt
Making Both Ends Meet: The income and outlay of New York working girls
by Sue Ainslie Clark, Edith Wyatt
The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors
by William Dean Howells, Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, John Kendrick Bangs, Alice Brown, Mary Stewart Cutting, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Henry James, Elizabeth Garver Jordan, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Henry Van Dyke, Mary Heaton Vorse, Edith Wyatt
About the author
Born in Tomah, Wisconsin, on September 14, 1873, she grew up mostly in Chicago, studied at Bryn Mawr College from 1892 to 1894, and later taught both at a private school and at Hull House. She spent much of her life in Chicago and died there on October 26, 1958.
She wrote fiction, essays, and poetry, and is often remembered as part of the lively cultural world that surrounded Hull House and Chicago’s early twentieth-century literary scene. Sources consulted during this search describe her as an American writer whose work appeared in books, magazines, and newspapers, with a style attentive to social life and the character of ordinary people.
Wyatt was also connected to reform-minded circles through her work and friendships, which helps explain why her writing feels both literary and grounded in lived experience. For listeners coming to her work now, that mix of intelligence, sympathy, and close observation is a big part of her appeal.