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Madeline Yale Wynne
1847–1918
A versatile artist, writer, and craftswoman, she moved easily between ghost stories, metalwork, and the American Arts and Crafts movement. Her life linked literary imagination with hands-on design in a way that still feels fresh.
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The Little Room, and Other Stories
by Madeline Yale Wynne
About the author
Born in Newport, New York, in 1847, Madeline Yale Wynne was the daughter of Linus Yale Jr., the inventor associated with the Yale lock. She trained as an artist, studied in Boston and New York, and became known not just as a writer but also as a designer, teacher, and philanthropist.
Wynne played an important role in the American Arts and Crafts movement. She was a founding member of the Chicago Arts and Crafts Society and later became a leading figure in Deerfield, Massachusetts, where she helped build a vibrant craft community. Her work included metalwork and other decorative arts, showing the same curiosity and originality that shaped her writing.
As an author, she is especially remembered for atmospheric fiction and supernatural tales, along with poetry and other prose. That mix of artistic skill and storytelling gives her work a distinctive charm: practical, imaginative, and quietly adventurous at the same time.