Keyes, Frances Parkinson, 1885-1970
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Keyes, Frances Parkinson (Wheeler) 1885-
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Keyes, Frances Parkinson, 1885-1970, author; wife of Henry Keyes
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Keyes, Frances Parkinson Wheeler 1885-1970
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Keyes, Frances Parkinson (Frances Parkinson Wheeler), 1885-1970
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Parkinson Keyes, Frances
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Parkinson Keyes, Frances 1885-1970
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Keyes, Frances Parkinson Wheeler
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Frances Parkinson Wheeler Keyes (1885-1970), born in Virginia, was married to Henry Wilder Keyes (1863-1938); they had three children. Henry W. Keyes became governor of New Hampshire in 1917 and a United States senator in 1919. The family maintained multiple residences. Frances Parkinson Keyes wrote popular romantic novels emphasizing local color, descriptions of life among the upper classes, and generation-spanning sagas. She wrote over fifty books, alternating between books about Louisiana with those in other settings, spending the late winter in New Orleans, the summer in Europe, and the rest of the year in New England or South America. She established a writing center in Beauregard House (later known as Beauregard-Keyes House), 1113 Chartres St., New Orleans, La.
Epithet: author; wife of Henry Keyes
Author of several novels; columnist for Good Housekeeping; editor of the National Historical Magazine, publication of the Daughters of American Revolution; wife of Henry Wilder Keyes, former governor and U.S. Senator of New Hampshire.
Frances Parkinson Keyes was the First Lady of New Hampshire, having married Henry Wilder Keyes in 1904, who became governor in 1917 and a U.S. Senator in 1919. She wrote romantic novels emphasizing local color, descriptions of life among the upper classes, and generation-spanning sagas. Beginning with Crescent Carnival, Keyes developed a pattern of alternating books about Louisiana with those in other settings, spending the late winter in New Orleans, the summer in Europe, and the rest of the year in New England or South America.
Writer of fiction and travel books of New Orleans, La.
American author.
Author and poet.
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Authors, American
American fiction
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Dinners and dining
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New Deal, 1933-1939
Women in public life
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New Orleans (La.)
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Louisiana--New Orleans
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United States
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20th century
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