I read a quote recently (in a calendar) by a woman named Minna Antrim:
To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.
All I’ve been able to find out about her is that she was an epigrammatist. Does anybody know anything else about her?
Thanks,
Jenn
[QUOTE=JustJenn]
I read a quote recently (in a calendar) by a woman named Minna Antrim:
To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.
All I’ve been able to find out about her is that she was an epigrammatist. Does anybody know anything else about her
It’s amazing how little is known about Minna Antrim.
BUT-------presumably-------------
She was early 20th century.
UndoubtedlyIrish.[Up the South]
A lady who ,romantically,preferred ladies.
Was,most assuredly, under-appreciated for all of those reasons .
The favorite for me that is attributed to her:
'I’ll worry about procrastinatiion when I get around to it.
EZ
Your quote is definitely better than the one I came across. Or, at least, more appropriate for me to quote. 
Does anyone else know anything about her? And where did you get your information (Not doubting you, just hoping it will lead me to more details)?
You know how sometimes you get a wild hair to know something, and then you find out the information isn’t readily available on the internet, and it makes you twitch? No? Well, I do.
Thanks for sharing what you could, Ez.
-Jenn
What I gave you was in a little dusty corner of my trivia collection.
BUT—this evening I punched her name into the keyword slot and hit a jackpot of items.
Nothing much biographical--------but a lot of quote references.
ENJOY!
OL’ EZ
The only link I can find is in appreciation for her many contributions to the calendar industry.
Minna Thomas Antrim was profiled in:
• Who Was Who in America. A component volume of Who’s Who in American History. Volume 4, 1961-1968. Chicago: Marquis Who’s Who, 1968.
• Woman’s Who’s Who of America. A biographical dictionary of contemporary women of the United States and Canada, 1914-1915. Edited by John William Leonard. New York: American Commonwealth Co., 1914.
• American Authors and Books. 1640 to the present day. Third revised edition. By W.J. Burke and Will D. Howe. Revised by Irving Weiss and Anne Weiss. New York: Crown Publishers, 1972.
Her year of birth is given variously as 1856, 1859, or 1861. The 1900 U.S. census says she was born in Pennsylvania, as were her parents. Her occupation is listed as “novelist”, and she was living in Philadelphia with William Antrim, her husband of 23 years (an editor), and three grown children.
Her books include Naked Truths and Veiled Allusions (1901), Book of Toasts (1902), Don’ts for Girls (1902), Wisdom of the Foolish and the Folly of the Wise (1903), Phases, Mazes and Crazes of Love (1904), Mimic’s Calendar (1904), Sweethearts and Beaux (1905), *Knocks, Witty, Wise and ---- *(1905), and Jester Life and his Marionettes (1908).
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Minna Thomas Antrim was profiled in:
• Who Was Who in America. A component volume of Who’s Who in American History. Volume 4, 1961-1968. Chicago: Marquis Who’s Who, 196
Her year of birth is given variously as 1856, 1859, or 1861. The 1900 U.S. census says she was born in Pennsylvania, as were her parents. Her occupation is listed as “novelist”, and she was living in Philadelphia with William Antrim, her husband of 23 years (an editor), and three grown children.
I guess it’s now a fact!-------octogenarian mamory is like a loose cannon on the gun deck.
When it fires it’s accuracy is a crap shoot.
Sorry about the view from the downhill slope.
EZ
Thanks guys! That’s exactly what I was looking for. I think I’ll keep my eyes open for “Don’ts for Girls.”
Maybe I should buy a copy of Who’s Who as well, eh? Thanks Walloon. Your reference library has eased my mind.
Note that the title of the first reference book is Who Was Who in America. The Who Was Who series collects the bios of dead people from the Who’s Who series.
Now that’s an image that won’t leave my head for awhile.
I’m glad to see all the references to Novelist. Epigramist was just too odd a job title.
What’s a mamory? If you mean mammary, what does that have to do with Ms. Antrim, and why the “octogenarian” reference? Also, mammaries are not known to “fire” :rolleyes: How did your above stated “fact” arise from the discussion here?
and what does this mean: “Sorry about the view from the downhill slope”?
Please clarify your statements. :dubious:
Is this a whoosh?
I could be wrong, but it would seem reasonable that the typo was for “memory” not “mammary”, and the “fact” referred to was that an octogenarian’s memory could not be relied upon, i.e., the poster Ezstrete who earlier claimed to have to have information about Minna Antrim was posting from his/her memory his/ her octogenarian memory could not be relied upon. I also took “Sorry for the view from the downhill slope.” to be a comment on the poster’s age. The post looked like a mea culpa to me.
And typing of typos, my post should have read:
the poster Ezstrete who earlier claimed to have to have information about Minna Antrim was posting from his/her memory and his/ her octogenarian memory could not be relied upon.
I will clarify all of the items which should have been decipherable by the average third grader.
1 The misplaced vowel in the word in question is only one of five letters which might have ventured into the spelling.
2 the octogenarian reference is an apologia for any confusion which may have been caused by one who IS one of those,and is looking down the slope to Nonegenarian.
3 Be it understood that I reply to your tongus in cheek[I presume] request because it is a query and NOT a command./
If it is the latter please disregard it completely
AND,if indeed it IS a command------I request that you refrain from demanding perfection when you probably cannot provide it yourself.
But whatever the case,as Mac Arthur said in Tokyo Bay,“These proceedings are closed.”
Ol’ EZ
I wasn’t aware that your post was a continuation of something you said previously. Take a look at your post and read it out of context and tell me it isn’t confusing, or doesn’t look like the ramblings of some hormonal kid on hallucinogens - which is what I thought at first. The misunderstanding is rather funny, I had no idea it was a mea culpa, but some tasteless joke at poor Ms. Antrim’s expense which I didn’t get.
That being said, there was no reason to insult me and the one other poster who seems to have gotten the same picture.