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Eleanor McCutcheon Collier Talmage
1857–1902
A little-known American writer remembered for helping preserve the life story of one of the most famous preachers of her day. Her published work offers a personal, close-up view of Thomas De Witt Talmage and the religious world they moved through together.
1 Audiobook
T. De Witt Talmage as I Knew Him
by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage, Eleanor McCutcheon Collier Talmage
About the author
Born in 1857 or 1858, Eleanor McCutcheon Collier Talmage is chiefly known as the co-author of T. De Witt Talmage as I Knew Him, a memoir published in 1912 after the deaths of both she and her husband, the preacher Thomas De Witt Talmage. Library and catalog records consistently connect her with that book, which combines his autobiographical writing with material she contributed.
Because so little about her survives in easily available sources, her public legacy is closely tied to that volume. It stands as both a biography and a personal remembrance, giving readers a more intimate picture of a major nineteenth-century religious figure through the perspective of someone who knew him best.
She died in 1902. Though not widely known as an author in her own right, her work helped shape how later readers encountered T. De Witt Talmage’s life and character.