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Edith Stevenson was born on June 13, 1910 in Pollokshields, Glasgow, Scotland, UK. She was an actress, known for Our Miss Pemberton (1957) and A House Called Bell Tower (1960). She was married to Bill Owen.
- June 13, 1910
- August 7, 1980
Dec 24, 2006 · Edith Will “Scottie”. Scott. Stevenson. In 1942, early in Coke Stevenson's term as governor, his wife, Fay Wright Stevenson, died of breast cancer. Around the same time, the governor's son — and Scottie Stevenson's husband — Coke Stevenson Jr. deployed to the Pacific Theater during World War II.
In the mid-1950s, Dare began photographing a children’s storybook about the adventures of a lonely doll named Edith and her two teddy bear friends. What began as a playfully creative collaboration with her young godchild evolved into a new genre of children’s literature.
Nov 23, 2022 · The acclaimed artwork of Edith Stevenson Wright, mother of Dare Wright, and painter of Presidents, Cancellors and Prime Ministers. Edie's portraits include some of Dare Wright both as a child and grown.
- An Early Talent
- An Unusual Focus
- An American Artist
- Acclaim Came Soon
- A Shattered Marriage
- Edie and Dare’s Experiences as Adults
Dare Wright’s mother Edith Pearl Stevenson (Edie) was born in Youngstown Ohio in 1883 to Samuel and Alice Gaither Stevenson. Samuel had come from his native England as a youth to work the iron mills of Ohio and nearby Ontario, Canada. Edie’s artistic talents were in evidence early on. Her mother Alice saved Edie’s first painting on ruled paper with...
Edie was lovely and petite. She possessed a mop of golden curls that other women might have tossed coquettishly to gather admirers. She did not, however, adhere to the Edwardian era’s concept of appropriate female behavior. Rather than lowering her large brown eyes demurely, Edie gazed straight into the soul of everyone she met. Edie’s mother had s...
Europe would have to wait while Edie studied in New York. The art dealer William Schaus gave her a three-week exhibition in his Fifth Avenue gallery. It brought her enough orders to stay in New York for another two years. Looking back on the family tragedy years later, Edie put the best spin possible on her aborted European studies. In an article f...
By 1910, Edie had established herself as a successful artist in both Youngstown and the village of Thornhill outside Toronto, where her suitor Ivan Leonard Wright also lived. A writer for The Toronto Globeeffused with a surfeit of adjectives over both Edie and her work saying, “Here is the glorious optimism, the vibrating tenderness and the radianc...
Edie completed the courthouse portraits before setting a wedding date with her dashing suitor, Ivan Wright. She then briefly put down her brushes to wed Ivan in Toronto on December 21, 1910. The Youngstown paper stated, “Miss Stevenson is an artist of recognized worth, and a girl of whom Youngstown people are proud.” More succinctly, it added, “Mr....
Soon after growing up in Ohio, Dare moved to New York City to pursue a career in acting, then fashion modeling. The move eventually led to the discovery of Dare’s talent with a camera, and to the creation of her now-famous children’s stories. Dare’s adventures and her relationships with her mother Edie and her friends and suiters are revealed as ne...
Edith Stevenson was born on 13 June 1910 in Pollokshields, Glasgow, Scotland, UK. She was an actress, known for Our Miss Pemberton (1957) and A House Called Bell Tower (1960). She was married to Bill Owen. She died on 7 August 1980 in Brighton, Sussex, England, UK.
Dec 5, 2004 · Her mother, Edith Stevenson Wright (known as Edie), fled a failing marriage on the East Coast for Cleveland, where she established herself as a society portrait painter. She severed...
