| (cont'd) By 1904 she was at the Minneapolis Tribune. While there she wrote under many pseudonyms. They include: Mrs. Jonathan Hep (giving "countrified" wisdom), Beatrice Fairfax (offered advice), Louise Chapelle (a beauty column), The CoEd, and Little Aids to Cupid (A title all Betsy-Tacy fans should find familiar!)
Betsy was not the only one who thought Quentin was a man. Clara was installed in the National Association of Humorists, an all-male organization. She was nominated by Strickland Gilliland, tongue-in-cheek (Strickland Gillilan, author of the poem “Reading Mother�). When they had their national convention, Strickland suggested that she go as �Mrs. Quentin.� When the Association found out she was a woman, she was forced to resign.
Clara left the Tribune when she married Chilson Darragh Aldrich in 1915. Before whe met Chilson, he read & clipped "Quentin" and thought it would be nice to meet “him.� After they married, she began writing magazine articles and novels. Her first magazine article was ghost-written with her husband, which was when she stole his middle name, "Darragh," as her nom de plume. |
