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Nancy Mann Nancy Robbins Mann is an American statistician known for her research on quality management, reliability estimation, and the Weibull distribution. Education and career Mann graduated from Chillicothe High School in Ohio in 1943. She earned bach ...

.'' Nancy Mann Waddel Woodrow (born c. 1867 – September 7, 1935) was an American writer, often credited as Mrs. Wilson Woodrow. The Piper's Price

Early life

Nancy Mann Waddel was born in

Chillicothe, Ohio Chillicothe ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Ross County, Ohio, United States. Located along the Scioto River 45 miles (72 km) south of Columbus, Chillicothe was the first and third capital of Ohio. It is the only city in Ross Count ...

, daughter of William Waddel and Jane McCoy Waddel. (The family's surname is also seen as Waddle and Waddell.) As a young woman, Nancy Waddel was briefly the assistant editor of the ''Chillicothe Daily News''.Kimberly A. Costino
"Woodrow, Nancy Mann Waddel"
''American National Biography Online'' (2000).

Career

Novels by Nancy Waddel Woodrow, many of them focused on women characters in American West, included ''The Bird of Time'' (1907), ''The New Missioner'' (1907), ''The Silver Butterfly'' (1908, titled ''The Veiled Mariposa'' in serial form), ''The Beauty'' (1910), ''Sally Salt'' (1912), ''The Hornet's Nest'' (1917), ''Swallowed Up'' (1922), ''Burned Evidence'' (1925), ''Come Alone'' (1929), ''The Second Chance'' (1931), and ''The Pawns of Murder'' (1932). She also wrote many short stories and essays published in magazines, and one play (''The Universal Impulse'', 1911). At least two dozen films were made from stories by Nancy Waddel Woodrow, starting from ''A Gypsy Madcap'' (1914) through six more "Olive" shorts starring Mabel Trunnelle in 1914 and 1915, and '' The Piper's Price'' (1917), and ending with the only sound adaptation, ''Without Children'' (1935). "I've flitted from flower to flower," she explained in 1922, "short stories, novels, essays, the pictures, even a play. Sometimes I've flivvered, sometimes succeeded; but I've had a beautiful time."

Personal life

Nancy Mann Waddel married mining engineer James Wilson Woodrow in 1897. He was a cousin of Woodrow Wilson. They divorced in 1905, but she was best known as "Mrs. Wilson Woodrow" for decades afterwards. Nancy Mann Waddel Woodrow died in 1935, aged about 60 years."Writer's Funeral Planned"
''Baltimore Sun'' (September 9, 1935): 19. via Newspapers.com

References

External links

* * * * Nancy Mann Waddel Woodrow
"Secret Chambers"
in Catherine A. Lundie, ed., ''Restless Spirits: Ghost Stories by American Women, 1872-1926'' (University of Massachusetts Press 1996): 175-191. {{DEFAULTSORT:Woodrow, Nancy Mann Waddel 1860s births 1935 deaths People from Chillicothe, Ohio American women writers