Two Women and a Fool publisher's poster, ca. 1895, Stone & Kimball, publisher, Chicago
Title
Subject
Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield), 1865-1945
De Koven, Anna, b. 1860
Stone & Kimball
Gibson, Charles Dana, 1867-1944
Bell, Lilian, 1867-1929
Description
This is a poster publicizing a Stone & Kimball (Chicago) novel by Hobart C. Chatfield-Taylor, illustrated by C. D. (Charles Dana) Gibson, entitled, Two Women and a Fool: http://www.archive.org/stream/twowomenafool00chatgoog#page/n10/mode/2up The black and white, engraving-illlustrated (Gibson) poster notes that this is in the same series with two other Stone & Kimball novels, A Sawdust Doll by Mrs. Reginald (Anna Farwell) De Koven (also 1895) and Little Sister to the Wilderness by Lilian Bell (Mrs. Arthur Hoyt Bogue). The poster's call number is Oversize Special Collections NC 1429 .G42 T95 1895. Acquired by purchase, it was "dry cleaned, washed, deacidified, mended and matted with acid-free board on 15 November 1978" by Jeffrey Rigby, Chicago (now Hudson, NY).
Chatfield-Taylor was the spouse of Rose Chatfield-Taylor, a sister of Mrs. De Koven, the two women daughters of Charles B. and Mary Smith Farwell, Lake Forest, principal funders of the relaunched Lake Forest University Collegiate Dept., 1876. For more information see "Thirty Miles North, A History of Lake Forest College..." by Franz Schulze et al. 2000. Reginald De Koven, Anna's spouse, was a composer of operettas, esp. "Robin Hood" (1890) with its "Oh, Promise Me" by De Koven.
