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Rebecca Hooper Eastman
1877–1937
A novelist, short-story writer, journalist, and suffrage activist, she moved easily between politics and popular storytelling. She is best remembered for The Big Little Person: A Romance (1917), later adapted into a silent film.
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 Lane Hooper Eastman built a career that reached across journalism, fiction, and public life. She studied at Radcliffe College and became known not only as a writer of short stories and novels, but also as an active supporter of woman suffrage.
Her fiction appeared in major magazines of the day, and her best-known book, The Big Little Person: A Romance, was published in 1917 and later adapted for the screen. Alongside her prose, she also wrote plays and collaborated on operettas, showing an interest in storytelling that went well beyond the printed page.
Eastman died in 1937, but her work still offers a glimpse of an era when magazine fiction, reform movements, and theatrical writing often overlapped. She stands out as a writer whose literary career and civic commitments were closely connected.