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Rosetta Luce Gilchrist
1850–1921
A doctor, poet, and novelist from Ohio, she brought an unusually wide range of experience to her writing. Her work moves between domestic fiction, reform-era concerns, and more imaginative themes, including psychic and utopian ideas.
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Tibby: A novel dealing with psychic forces and telepathy
by Rosetta Luce Gilchrist
About the author
Born in Kingsville, Ohio, in 1850, Rosetta Luce Gilchrist built a career that joined medicine and literature. She studied at Oberlin College and later graduated from the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College, going on to establish a medical practice while also writing poetry, fiction, and essays.
Her life reflects the energy of many late 19th-century women who worked across professional and creative fields. In addition to her medical work, she was active in public life and is remembered as an author whose books ranged from novels of social and religious interest to more unusual speculative material.
Gilchrist died in 1921. Today she is often noted for the uncommon blend of professions she sustained so successfully: physician, poet, and novelist, with a body of work that hints at both everyday American life and the era’s curiosity about reform, belief, and the unseen.