Rachel Field
1894 -1942
Background – Biographical Information & Connection to Maine (1)
The Field House is a 2021 biography of Rachel Field available in the BHS Library’s 24 Maine Authors Special Collection in both print and eBook format
Visual Text
Rachel Field with her husband Arthur Pederson in 1935 (2)
Virtual Visit – Landmarks & Museums
The Preble House on Great Cranberry Island. “It sheltered the lore and relics of 19th-century expeditions, exhibitions, shipwrecks, romances, rivalries, wealth, religion, and civic duty. It served as the backdrop for two books by Rachel Field: God’s Pocket, and Hitty, Her First Hundred Years.” (7)
Great Cranberry Island’s Preble House, built in 1827, shown here in disrepair in 1935, and renovated in 1947 (7)
The Preble House in 1895 (7)
Primary Sources
Articles about Rachel Field’s best-loved books (10)
Click above to see newspaper clippings and read correspondence between Rachel Field and the Maine State Library as it was building a Maine Authors Special Collection. (4)
Text Excerpts & Access to Books
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Text Excerpts
Rachel Field – Obituary (9)
Find-a-Grave burial record for Rachel Field (8)
Photo Credits and Sources:
1. McDowell, Margaret B. “Rachel (Lyman) Field.” American Novelists, 1910-1945, edited by James J. Martine, Gale, 1981. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 9. Gale Literature Resource Center, link.gale.com/apps/doc/H1200000183/LitRC?u=brun84057&sid=bookmark-LitRC&xid=58aaee95. Accessed 16 Mar. 2022.
2. https://www.mainememory.net/artifact/82319/zoom
3. https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/23356.Rachel_Field?from_search=true&from_srp=true
4. https://digitalmaine.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1131&context=maine_writers_correspondence
7. https://www.mainememory.net/sitebuilder/site/2423/page/3901/display?use_mmn=1
8. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/34459348/rachel-lyman-pederson
9. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/34459348/rachel-lyman-pederson (courtesy of Diane Gravlee of Find a Grave).
10. https://nehlibrary.net/digitalarchive/files/original/1828/GEN_0341_a.pdf
