Rebecca Hooper Eastman

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Rebecca Hooper Eastman

1877–1937

An early 20th-century American novelist and short story writer, she wrote lively, readable fiction that often centered on women, family life, and everyday social tensions. Her work also reached silent-era audiences when one of her novels was adapted for film.

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Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories; Second Series

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

Rebecca Hooper Eastman, also referred to in some sources as Rebecca Lane Hooper Eastman, was an American author whose published work includes fiction from the early 1900s. Project Gutenberg lists her among authors of the period, and surviving references connect her with both novels and short stories.

Her writing appears to have been aimed at a broad popular readership, with stories grounded in domestic life and personal relationships rather than lofty literary showmanship. One of her novels, The Big Little Person, was later adapted into a 1919 silent film, showing that her work found an audience beyond the page.

Although she is not widely known today, Eastman remains part of the rich landscape of magazine and book publishing in the early twentieth century, and her work offers a window into the tastes and storytelling style of that era.