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Rebecca Hooper Eastman
1877–1937
A sharp-eyed journalist and suffrage-era writer, she moved easily between fiction, drama, and public life. Her work captures the energy of early 20th-century America, from witty magazine stories to the novel that became the 1919 silent film The Big Little Person.
1 Audiobook
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
About the author
Born in Walpole, New Hampshire, in 1877, Rebecca Hooper Eastman built a varied career as an author, journalist, and activist. She wrote short stories, plays, and nonfiction, and her fiction appeared in well-known magazines of her day, including The Atlantic and The Saturday Evening Post.
Eastman was also active in the woman suffrage movement, especially in New York, where she took part in organizing and public advocacy. That mix of literary and civic work gives her writing a lively, socially aware quality that still feels distinctive.
She is best remembered for her 1917 novel The Big Little Person: A Romance, which was later adapted into a silent film. Although she is not as widely known now as some of her contemporaries, her career offers a vivid glimpse of a writer who was fully engaged with the cultural and political currents of her time.