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Jan 9, 2024 · Charmian London, literary adventurer, galloped through the Berkeley Hills in 1890s. Not just Jack London’s wife, she advocated for socialism and a free-love lifestyle she observed growing up on Parker Street. The first biography placing her in the spotlight is now an audiobook. by Joanne Furio Jan. 9, 2024, 9:23 a.m.
Jan 30, 2024 · Kittredge and London. Charmian Kittredge met Jack London during a luncheon at Young's restaurant in March 1900. Kittredge worked at one of the largest shipping firms in San Francisco, E. Mickle and Company. London admired her socialism and literary knowledge and frequently met at Kittredge's home in Berkeley to discuss literature, including ...
Jack London and Harry Houdini were two of the most remarkable Americans of the early twentieth century. That they quickly became friends when they met just before Thanksgiving in 1915 is not ...
Jack appreciated Charmian's hard work, her artistic talents in music and drawing, and her ability to combine traditional feminine style with unconventionality. London found in her the components of a mature personality, the "Man Comrade," one who was both strong and tender, male and female in traits.
For more details about London’s life as well as a full inventory of USU’s larger print collection of Jack and Charmian London materials, access the finding aid. Merrill-Cazier Library's Special Collections and Archives houses one of the largest Jack London manuscript collections in the world, second only to the prestigious Huntington ...
Apr 18, 2017 · Charmian London’s Function in Jack London’s Fiction and Nonfiction. Jay Williams. Pages 343-361 | Published online: 18 Apr 2017. Cite this article. https://doi.org/10.1080/00497878.2017.1302766. Full Article. Figures & data. References. Citations. Metrics. Reprints & Permissions. Read this article. Click to increase image size. Acknowledgments.
Feb 1, 2022 · Jack London was a charismatic literary celebrity with a prodigious list of titles and a vigorous, adventure-seeking public image. He remains an iconic American writer. But, as biographer Iris Jamahl Dunkle explains, he also had a wife—Charmian Kittredge London—who was an integral partner in his work and a dedicated custodian of his memory.
