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Josephine Culpeper
Best known for a warm, lively story drawn from family life, this early 20th-century writer turned everyday childhood adventures into fiction with humor and affection. Her work has survived through digital archives, giving modern readers a glimpse of a very personal style of storytelling.
1 Audiobook
Bolax, Imp or Angel—Which?
by Josephine Culpeper
About the author
Very little biographical information about Josephine Culpeper is easy to confirm from reliable online sources. What can be verified is that she is credited as the author of Bolax, Imp or Angel—Which?, a children's novel preserved by Project Gutenberg.
A Villanova University library post describes that book as a fictionalized biographical account of her son, Bolax, and notes that he attended the boys' academy at Villanova for a time. That gives her work a strong autobiographical feel, blending family memory with storytelling.
Because so few firm details about her life are readily documented online, the surviving book itself is the clearest introduction to her voice: domestic, observant, and interested in the imagination and mischief of childhood.