Agnes Repplier Biography

Agnes Repplier, Writer

Occup.	Writer
From	USA
Born	April 1, 1855 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Died	November 15, 1950 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Aged	95 years

Agnes Repplier, a notable American writer and also author, was born upon April 1, 1855, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was the child of John George Repplier, a thriving coal merchant, as well as Agnes Mathias, that aspired to establish an intellectual atmosphere for their family members. Agnes had 5 brother or sisters, yet only one, her sister Emily, survived early stage. Her sibling, John, and 3 various other siblings passed away at a very early age. The regrettable fatalities of her family members cast a melancholic darkness over her life, which later influenced her writing.

Maturing, Agnes was known as a defiant kid, doubting churches and also having a hard time for intellectual freedom. This led her to leave the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Eden Hall (now referred to as Sewall Academy) at the age of twenty, after experiencing dissatisfaction with the stringent rules as well as traditional institution educational program. Agnes went on to receive an informal education in your home via reading commonly and also participating in periodic talks.

Agnes began her writing career throughout the 1870s and acquired first acknowledgment in 1881 when her essay, "Children, previous and Present", was released in the "Atlantic Monthly", one of the earliest as well as most influential US publications. She went on to contribute essays, write-ups, and also books featuing wit, wit, and gloss for greater than fifty years to literary magazines such as the "Century", "Harper's", "Scribner's", as well as "The Catholic World".

Agnes Repplier's essays were admired as well as delighted in by popular writers during her time, consisting of C.S. Lewis and Theodore Roosevelt. Via her jobs, she promoted a conservative and timeless liberal point ofview, promoting for custom and also the importance of maintaining historical sites. Repplier's writing design mirrored her love of beauty, improvement, and also recreation, but additionally touched on severe subjects such as religious beliefs, education, and also the nuances of human nature. She was greatly influenced by 17th-century British authors as well as additionally equated several works from French.

Repplier released over two dozen books in her life time, with subjects varying from women's issues, like education and smoking cigarettes, to American culture as well as background. A few of her noteworthy jobs consist of "In Our Convent Days" (1905), which discovered her experiences growing up in the Catholic educational system; "Americans and Others" (1912), a collection of essays talking about American culture; and "To Think of Tea!" (1932), which delved into the background as well as social significance of tea. Repplier likewise created a bio of her longtime pal, Father Isaac Hecker, owner of the church to which Agnes belonged, the Paulist Fathers.

Agnes Repplier never married; she considered herself a "singular" woman as well as enjoyed her freedom throughout her life. She was a respected participant of numerous cultures, consisting of the American Academy of Arts and also Letters, which she participated 1935. She was awarded honorary degrees from numerous establishments, such as the University of Pennsylvania, Notre Dame, as well as Yale. In recommendation of her literary accomplishments, she got the Laetare Medal from Notre Dame University in 1925 and was honored by the French federal government as an Officier d'Instruction Publique.

Agnes Repplier passed away on December 15, 1950, in her home town of Philadelphia at the age of 95. With her substantial body of work of essays and also publications, Agnes Repplier left a long-term legacy in American literature, tough conventional mindsets and maintaining an unique, stylish writing style matched to her insightful and also sophisticated viewpoint on life.

Our collection contains 22 quotes who is written / told by Agnes, under the main topics: Happiness - Humor - Pet.

Related authors: Lawrence Taylor (Athlete), Theodore Roosevelt (President)

Agnes Repplier Famous Works:

1888 Books and Men (Book)
1891 Points of View (Book)
1892 A Book of Famous Verse (Book)
1892 Essays in Miniature (Book)
1894 In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers (Book)
1897 Varia (Book)
1898 Philadelphia: The Place and the People (Book)
1901 The Fireside Sphinx (Book)
1905 In Our Convent Days (Book)
1908 The Cat: A Calendar and Anthology (Book)
1912 Americans and Others (Book)
1916 Counter-Currents (Book)

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22 Famous quotes by Agnes Repplier

"It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh"

"People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization"

"Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals"

"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere"

"It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self"

"Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about"

"We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh"

"There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join"

"Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt"

"A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there"

"Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding"

"It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more"

"There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth"

"Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature"

"It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought"

"It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization"

"Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements"

"The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them"

"It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning"

"The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them"

"The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth"

"The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it"