Elizabeth Campbell Winter Explained

Elizabeth Campbell Winter (–) was an American actress and novelist. She published under her own name and the pen names Isabella Castelar, Elsie Snowe, and Blanche Myrtle.^[1]

Elizabeth Campbell was born on in Ederline, Loch Awe, Scotland, the daughter of John Campbell and Jessie Tulloch Campbell. Her family moved to Toronto, Canada when she was a child.^[2]

At the urging of Ada Clare, she moved to New York City in 1859 to pursue a writing career. She met her husband William Winter, literary critic of the Saturday Press, when she attempted to sell a short story to the publication.^[3] Her novels include The Spanish Treasure (1893), a lost race novel set in South America. The novel contains the first recorded use of the idiom "turn the air blue".

Her stage debut was at the Olympic Theatre in New York City on April 11, 1864. She was a student of Edwin Booth and starred as Katherine opposite Booth's Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew at the Winter Garden in 1877. She retired from the stage the next year.

Elizabeth Campbell Winter died on 7 April 1922 in Los Angeles.^[4]

Personal life

She married writer and dramatic critic William Winter in 1860. They had five children, including William Jefferson Winter, who married actress Elise Leslie.

Bibliography

• The Curse of Dangerfield: Or, The Test of a Hundred Years (as Elsie Snow) N. L. Munro, 1883. ^[5]
• The Spanish Treasure (as Isabella Castelar) New York: R Bonner's Sons, 1893^[6]
• A Girl's First Love (1905)^[7]
• Hawthorn Lodge
• The Mistress of the Grange

Notes and References

1. Book: Leonard, John William . Woman's who's who of America; a biographical dictionary of contemporary women of the United States and Canada . 1914 . New York, The American Commonwealth Company . Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center.
2. Book: Leonard, John William . Woman's who's who of America; a biographical dictionary of contemporary women of the United States and Canada . 1914 . New York, The American Commonwealth Company . Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center.
3. Book: Watermeier, Daniel J. . Between Actor and Critic: Selected Letters of Edwin Booth and William Winter . 2015-03-08 . Princeton University Press . 978-1-4008-7167-4 . en.
4. Book: Variety . Variety (April 1922) . 1922 . New York, NY: Variety Publishing Company . Media History Digital Library.
5. Book: R.R. Bowker Company. Dept. of Bibliography . Fiction, 1876-1983 : a bibliography of United States editions : classified author index, main author index, title index, key to publishers and distributors abbreviations/directory of publishers and distributors . R.R. Bowker Company. Publications Systems Dept . 1983 . New York : Bowker . Internet Archive . 978-0-8352-1880-1.
6. Web site: SFE: Winter, Mrs Elizabeth C . 2024-05-07 . sf-encyclopedia.com.
7. Book: Burke, William Jeremiah . American authors and books, 1640 to the present day . 1972 . New York, Crown Publishers . Internet Archive . 978-0-517-50139-9.