Miss Eugenia Frothingham

Eugenia Brooks Frothingham was born on November 17, 1873, in Paris, France, to Eugenia and Edward B. Frothingham. In 1874, she and her parents returned to their native city of Boston, Massachusetts. She had two younger siblings, Olga and Charles Mifflin.

Frothingham was a descendant of Nathaniel Gorham, who represented Massachusetts in the 1782-1783 Continental Congress. Her uncle, George Mifflin, cofounded Houghton Mifflin Publishing Co., which published several of Frothingham's novels.

Frothingham was a member of the Society of Women Journalists from 1904 to 1906. She contributed short fiction to The Atlantic Monthly and opinion pieces to The Boston Globe. She also published six novels: The Turn of the Road (1901), The Evasion (1906), Her Roman Lover (1912), The Way of the Wind (1917), The Finding of Norah (1918), and Youth and I (1930).

Beyond her literary career, Frothingham participated in numerous organizations that supported her political and literary interests. She was a member of the Boston Athenaeum, the London Athenaeum, the Authors Club of Boston, the Colony and Cosmopolitan Clubs of New York City, the Back Bay Association, the Chilton Club of Boston, and the Purple Lunch Club of Boston. In 1914, she co-founded the Writer's Equal Suffrage League and, in 1918, she served as a director of the League for Permanent Peace.

Frothingham died on December 30, 1971, at the age of 98.