Celia Parker Woolley
Celia Parker Woolley (June 14, 1848 – March 9, 1918) was a novelist and Unitarian minister from the United States.
Biography
She was born Celia Parker on June 14, 1848, in Toledo, Ohio. She later graduated from Coldwater Female Seminary and, in 1868, she married dentist J. H. Woolley, and in 1876 moved to Chicago. The couple had one child who died in adolescence.[1]
Woolley began studies for the ministry, and became pastor of the Unitarian Church of Geneva, Illinois, 1893-1896, being ordained in 1894. She was then pastor of the Independent Liberal Church, Chicago, 1896-98. In 1904 she moved with her husband to Chicago's South Side to do social work. She died there in 1918.
She was active as a lecturer and in the work of women's clubs. This work emphasized literature and related biography.[1] George Eliot and Robert Browning were two interests.[1]
Works
- Love and Theology, novel (1887; republished as Rachel Armstrong, or, Love and Theology)
- A Girl Graduate, novel (1889)
- Roger Hunt, novel (1893)
- The Western Slope, autobiographical and historical (1903)
Notes
- 1 2 3 Lee Schweninger (1999). "Woolley, Celia Parker". American National Biography. New York: Oxford University Press.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Woolley, Celia Parker". Encyclopedia Americana.- George B. Utley (1936). "Wooley, Celia Parker". Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.