{"id":824,"date":"2014-10-22T21:52:17","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T21:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/?p=824"},"modified":"2014-10-22T21:56:56","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T21:56:56","slug":"literary-talent-babcock-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/literary-talent-babcock-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Literary Talent (Babcock-2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_828\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-828\" style=\"width: 214px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/files\/2014\/06\/Literary-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-828 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/files\/2014\/06\/Literary-3-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"Babcock posing with temperance newspapers, undated\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/files\/2014\/06\/Literary-3-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/files\/2014\/06\/Literary-3.jpg 733w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-828\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Babcock posing with temperance newspapers, undated<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Babcock turned to writing as a way to support her family after the death of her husband, William Franklin Babcock, in 1897. She explored many controversial subjects, including race relations, temperance, politics, and evolution, in her books <em>Mammy<\/em>, <em>The Daughter of the Republican<\/em>, <em>A Political Fool<\/em>, and <em>By Way of the Master Passion<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>By the early 1900s, her youngest child started school, freeing Babcock to pursue paying work outside of the home. She went to work for the <em>Arkansas Democrat<\/em> as editor of &#8220;The Society Page&#8221; and book reviews.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_853\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-853\" style=\"width: 179px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/files\/2014\/06\/Literary-7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-853 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/files\/2014\/06\/Literary-7.jpg\" alt=\"Babcock sitting wearing hat and black dress, n.d.\" width=\"179\" height=\"258\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-853\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Babcock sitting wearing hat and black dress, undated<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After five years at the <em>Arkansas Democrat<\/em>, Bernie resigned in order to become editor and publisher of <em>The Sketch Book<\/em>, a southern magazine known for photography, paintings, drawings, stories, and poetry. The magazine was published from 1906 through 1909.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_846\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-846\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/files\/2014\/06\/Literary-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-846 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/files\/2014\/06\/Literary-4-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"Babcock in bookstore with SKETCH BOOK, undated\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/files\/2014\/06\/Literary-4-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/files\/2014\/06\/Literary-4-220x150.jpg 220w, https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/files\/2014\/06\/Literary-4.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-846\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Babcock in bookstore with <em>The Sketch Book<\/em>, undated<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\"><div class=\"entry-summary\">\n<p>Babcock turned to writing as a way to support her family after the death of her husband, William Franklin Babcock, in 1897. She explored many controversial subjects, including race relations, temperance, politics, and evolution, in her books Mammy, The Daughter&hellip;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/literary-talent-babcock-2\/\" class=\"more-link\"><br \/>\n\t\tContinue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Literary Talent (Babcock-2)&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;\t<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/literary-talent-babcock-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">\n\t\tContinue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Literary Talent (Babcock-2)&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;\t<\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":788,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[39,26],"class_list":["post-824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bernie-babcock","tag-babcock-in-profile","tag-undated","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":43,"href":"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":991,"href":"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions\/991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}