Emilie Kip Baker
, 1873 - 1951
Emilie Kip Baker was a children’s author of Macmillan books of poetry and myth, such as Out Of The Northland: Stories From The Northern Myths (1904) and The Children’s First Book of Poetry (1915). She was married to Franklin T. Baker, who founded the Columbia Teaching College’s Department of the Teaching of English.
Emilie Baker’s own works also show an educational interest; for example she published Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools (1916), which aimed to reintroduce works considered to be classics to children. In addition to short stories by authors such as Louisa Alcott and Charles Dickens, this work featured Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rudyard Kipling and Charles Lamb, all well known in the field of classical reception. This perhaps indicates possible influence from these authors on Baker’s classical work. In her introduction to Short Stories and Selections, Baker complained that nineteenth century classics were not given to children enough, and were forced to compete with modern publications. An open access copy of this book can be viewed here.
Sources:
Catalog of copyright entries: Books. Part, group 1, Volume 12, Issue 1; Librivox (accessed: December 16, 2019);
Goodreads (accessed: December 16, 2019).
Bio prepared by Robin Diver, University of Birmingham, RSD253@student.bham.ac.uk
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