Madeline Yale Wynne

Born in New York City on September 25, 1847, she was part of the prominent Yale family and built a life that blended art and literature. She studied painting in New York and Europe, later worked as an artist and teacher, and became known for her interest in the Arts and Crafts movement.

She was a founding member of the Chicago Arts and Crafts Society and became the first president of the Deerfield Society of Arts and Crafts in Massachusetts. Alongside that work, she wrote fiction and is especially remembered for ghost stories, with The Little Room and Other Stories standing out as her best-known collection.

She died on January 4, 1918. Today, she is remembered as a multi-talented cultural figure whose life joined visual art, community work, and imaginative, quietly unsettling fiction.