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Daphne Alloway McVicker
A young white woman with sandy hair dressed to the nape, wearing a white top
Daphne Alloway (later McVicker), from the 1916 yearbook of Ohio State University
Born
Daphne Ninnette Alloway

March 14, 1895
Cambridge, Ohio
DiedMay 24, 1979
New York City
OccupationWriter
Children3, including Blythe McVicker Clinchy

Daphne Alloway McVicker (March 14, 1895 – May 24, 1979) was an American writer, mainly of short stories, and a comic memoir, The Queen Was in the Kitchen (1944).

Early life and education

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Daphne Ninnette Alloway was born in Cambridge, Ohio, the daughter of James William Alloway and Ninnette McKinley Alloway. Her father was a grocer. She graduated from Ohio State University in 1916.[1]

Career

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McVicker published hundreds of poems and short stories in magazines and newspapers.[2] She was especially successful in romance magazines, "both confessions and slicks",[3] with titles including Romantic Love Secrets, Sweetheart Stories, Ainslee's Smart Love Stories.[4] She also had stories published in more mainstream women's magazines, such as Cosmopolitan and McCall's.[5][6] Some of her stories were anthologized in story collections and school readers.[7]

McVicker was a member of Theta Sigma Phi, and spoke at their annual banquet in 1930.[8] In 1940 she won the Headliner Award from Theta Sigma Phi's successor organization, the Association for Women in Communications.[9]

The New York Times praised McVicker's 1944 comic memoir, The Queen Was in the Kitchen, with the reviewer saying "Domestic harassments are among the most unbecoming of woes, but on Mrs. McVicker they wear well."[10] Her story "I Weep for You" (Cosmopolitan, June 1945) is a campus romance involving a disabled veteran of World War II.[11]

Publications

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  • "The Giving Half of the Word" (1922)[12]
  • "The Princess with the Tired Shadow" (1927)[13]
  • "The Search for a Charm" (1927)[13]
  • "According to the Canary" (1935)[14]
  • "Monthly Bill" (1935)[15]
  • "Baked in a Pie" (1935)[16]
  • "Tourists Accommodated" (1936)[17]
  • "Billy Calf Runs Away" (1940)[7]
  • The Queen Was in the Kitchen (1944)[18]
  • "Little Cocktail" (1944)[5]
  • "High Heels" (1945)[19]
  • "I Weep for You" (1945)[11]
  • "Love Is Gorgeous, I Guess" (1946)[20]
  • "Don't Rush Me Baby" (1947)[6]

Personal life

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Alloway married journalist Vinton E. McVicker in 1916.[21][22] They had three children, Laurel, James, and Blythe.[23] Her son died in 1970,[24] and she died in 1979, at the age of 84, in New York City.[25] Blythe McVicker Clinchy became a psychology researcher and chair of the psychology department at Wellesley College.[26]

References

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  1. ^ Neely, Ruth; Ohio Newspaper Women's Association (1900). Women of Ohio; a record of their achievements in the history of the state;. Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center. [Springfield, Ill.] S. J. Clarke Publishing Company. p. 792.
  2. ^ "Alumna Successful Writer". Ohio State University Monthly. 15 (6): 31. March 1924.
  3. ^ Stewart, Elizabeth Grey (December 1944). "I've Scattered my Fire". Writer's Digest. 25: 22 – via Internet Archive.
  4. ^ "Index by Name". The FictionMags Index. p. 5974. Retrieved 2023-08-28.
  5. ^ a b McVicker, Daphne Alloway (November 1944). "Little Cocktail". Cosmopolitan. 117 (5): 37, 105 – via Internet Archive.
  6. ^ a b McVicker, Daphne Alloway (March 1947). "Don't Rush Me, Baby". McCall's. 74 (6): 24–25, 91.
  7. ^ a b Gray, William S. (William Scott) (1940). Basic Readers - Curriculum Foundation Series: Friends and Neighbours. University of Alberta Libraries. Gage : Toronto.
  8. ^ "Honor Guests". The Indianapolis Star. 1930-01-14. p. 4. Retrieved 2023-08-28 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Headliner Award - The Association for Women in Communications". 2022-02-27. Retrieved 2023-08-28.
  10. ^ Cobb, Jane (1944-03-19). "Domestic Doldrums; The Queen Was in the Kitchen". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-08-28.
  11. ^ a b "Cosmopolitan (advertisement)". The Spokesman-Review. 1945-06-08. p. 2. Retrieved 2023-08-28.
  12. ^ McVicker, Daphne Alloway (November 1922). "The Giving Half of the Word". The American Girl. 6 (4): 13–14, 35.
  13. ^ a b Cook, Frances Kerr (1927). Red and gold stories /. The Library of Congress. Chicago : Albert Whitman. pp. 9–14, 97–102.
  14. ^ McVicker, Daphne Alloway (1935-06-07). "According to the Canary". The Evening Sun. p. 29. Retrieved 2023-08-28 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ McVicker, Daphne Alloway (1935-10-28). "Chronicle Daily Short Story: Monthly Bill". Spokane Chronicle. p. 12. Retrieved 2023-08-28 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ^ McVicker, Daphne Alloway (1935-09-30). "Item's Daily Short Story: Baked in a Pie". The Daily Item. p. 10. Retrieved 2023-08-28 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. ^ "Today's Short Short Story: Tourists Accommodated". The Oklahoma News. 1936-07-28. p. 4. Retrieved 2023-08-28 – via Newspapers.com.
  18. ^ McVicker, Daphne Alloway (1944). The Queen was in the Kitchen. Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill.
  19. ^ McVicker, Daphne Alloway (April 1945). "High Heels". Cosmopolitan. 118 (4): 29, 122 – via Internet Archive.
  20. ^ "Love is Gorgeous, I Guess". Cosmopolitan. 120 (6): 31–33, 168. June 1946 – via Internet Archive.
  21. ^ "Weddings". The Ohio State University Monthly. 8 (1): 37. July 1916.
  22. ^ "Engagement Announced". Chillicothe Gazette. 1916-06-05. p. 5. Retrieved 2023-08-28 – via Newspapers.com.
  23. ^ "Amelia Hydell's Column". Chillicothe Gazette. 1943-07-03. p. 5. Retrieved 2023-08-28 – via Newspapers.com.
  24. ^ "McVicker". The Miami Herald. 1970-09-14. p. 38. Retrieved 2023-08-28 – via Newspapers.com.
  25. ^ "Daphne McVicker". The New York Times. May 27, 1979. Retrieved 2023-08-28.
  26. ^ "In Memoriam: Blythe McVicker Clinchy". Wellesley Magazine. Fall 2014. Retrieved 2023-08-28.
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