Winnifred Eaton’s Collaborators

Alfred S. Campbell (1840-1912), who immigrated to the United States from England in the late 1860’s, founded the Alfred S. Campbell Art Company in 1871 in Elizabeth, New Jersey. The company went on to include reproductions, photographs, and illustrations. In addition to being an entrepreneur, illustrator, and photographer, Campbell also was an inventor and held numerous patents, which included inventing a panoramic lens and patenting a method for photography printing on platinum.

Canadian poet.

Charles Allan Gilbert (1873 - 1929) was a prolific, talented, American illustrator, animator, and artist best known for his 1892 illusionist drawing All is Vanity. Gilbert studied at the Art Students’ League in New York and Academie Julian in Paris before opening a studio in New York. Gilbert created illustrations for advertisements, magazines (including The Saturday Evening Post, Scribner’s, and Harper’s), calendars, and novels (including Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence). Gilbert is credited as the inventor of cartoons for the screen. He also designed posters in the First World War and worked as a camouflage artist for the US. Shipping Board during this time.

Capel Rowley (1862-1935) was a Chicago-based artist and writer. He illustrated Margaret Homes Bates’ 1894 love story Shylock’s Daughter as well as Grace Wilbur’s 1895 novel A Mormon’s Wife. Rowley also wrote short stories, such as “Corralled by Fire” (1893) for The Los Angeles Times and “Trapper Tom’s Robber” for the Philadelphia Inquirer in the same year.

Clara Kimball Young (1890-1960) was a popular American actress and producer of the early silent film era. She was a prominent film star of Vitagraph Studios and later of World Film Corporation, but many of her films with Vitagraph are now lost. After a highly publicized affair with producer Lewis J. Selznick which resulted in her divorce from director James Young, Young and Selznick formed the Clara Kimball Young Film Corporation in 1916 of which she acted as the vice president and Selznick the president. She was the second film actress to create a namesake production company. After their romantic and professional relationship failed, Young created her own namesake production company, C.K.Y. Film Corporation, which operated from 1917-1919. She produced the 1918 film adaptation of “The Claw” by Cynthia Stockley as adapted by Winnifred Eaton Reeve. She quit producing in 1919 but continued to act until 1941.

Cynthia Stockley (1873-1936), born Lillian Julian Webb, was a South African-Rhodesian novelist, journalist, and actress. She was born in Orange Free State in Southern Africa. Her parents were Irish and English, and she moved to England where she later died. She is the author of The Claw which was re-adapted for screen by Winnifred Reeve and released in 1927. The Claw was previously turned into a film in 1918. Six of her books were turned into films: Poppy (1917), The Claw (1918), Wild Honey (1922), Ponjola (1923), and The Claw (1927).

Canadian novelist.

Frédérique Rosine de Grésac (1866 - 1943) was a French librettist, lyricist, playwright, and screenwriter. She wrote under the male-sounding name Fred de Gresac.

John Clithero Gilbert (?-1905) was a Chicago-based illustrator best known for illustrating Harold Bell Wright’s 1902 novel The Printer of Udell’s and William Hawley Smith’s 1904 science fiction novel The Promoters: A Novel Without a Woman.

Larry Trimble (1885-1954) was an American writer, director, and actor. In her screenplay Rose Marie, Winnifred Eaton Reeve writes that she met him “about three years” before the screenplay at the annual Banff winter carnival, so in approximately Winter 1924.

Louis Betts (1873-1961), born in Little Rock, Arkansas, was a renowned and decorated American portrait painter particularly active in the Chicago and New York City art scenes. Beginning his career as an illustrator, he completed work for Charles Eugene Banks in his book Child of the Sun, in addition to his illustrations for several of Onoto Watanna’s works. Louis Betts’ honours included a $5,000 Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts prize and a $3,000 travelling scholarship awarded by the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts for travel in Europe.

Margaret Fernie Eaton (1871-1953?) worked primarily in pyrography and watercolor. She was born in England but immigrated to the United States in 1905, settling in Brooklyn, New York, for the majority of her career. Eaton studied at the Adelphi Academy and won several prizes for her work there. In Spring 1895, Eaton spent four months in Brockville, Canada, at a camp with friends where she completed a number of pieces, highlighted in an extensive interview in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Eaton became a member of the New York Watercolor Club; additionally, her work with pyrography advanced the style in the early 1900’s.

Canadian author.

Canadian poet.