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About Joan Elizabeth Abbott
Biography
Joan Elizabeth Abbott (London) was an American writer and the older of two daughters born to Jack London and his first wife, Elizabeth "Bess" Maddern London.
- http://www.jack-london.org/joan-london/08-intro.htm
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_London_(American_writer)
- https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/120940835/joan_elizabeth_miller
She was married five times, twice to the same man. Her marriage to Charles Lortz Miller, her high school sweetheart and Oakland's Tri-athelete Champion (Indian Miller), lasted for 23 years until his death in 1970. She followed him in death less than a year later, and was in turn joined by her first husband, Park Abbott, ten days apart...all three had been high school friends and maintained a life-long friendship.”
Writing Career
Joan London's first publication was a serial published in the Oakland Tribune from December 6, 1926 to February 24, 1927. Sylvia Coventry is reminiscent of her father's love triad novels. Sylvia rebuffs a proposal and moves to Hawaii to work on as the welfare worker on a plantation. There she is bewitched by an ominous intruder who provokes her into various incarnations. This one attempt at fiction convinced her it was not her metier.
Trained in historical research, during the late 1930s, Joan researched Jack London and His Times, a biography of her father. To do so, she received permission from Charmian Kittredge London to view her father's archive at the Huntington Library; being cut out of her father's will, she had no independent right.
She co-authored So Shall Ye Reap: The Story of Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement with Henry Anderson. They provide an early history of the movement, beginning with Father Thomas McCullough and Ernesto Galarza. They also fault Mexico for failing to provide a sustainable economy for its poor.
Her son Bart Abbott ensured the posthumous publication of her memoir Jack London and His Daughters. There she emphasized the trauma of divorce on children.
References
- Helen Abbott, Introduction to Jack London Family, http://www.jack-london.org/joan-london/08-intro.htm “ … I met Joan, my mother-in-law-to-be, in 1946 in her home in Berkeley, California near the Claremont Hotel. She was an awesome, majestic figure coming down a broad carpeted staircase in that stately, large, brown-shingled house at 17 El Camino Real. …”
- http://www.jack-london.org/joan-london/08-intro-2.htm
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Joan Elizabeth Abbott's Timeline
| 1901 |
January 15, 1901
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Piedmont, Alameda County, California, United States
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| 1921 |
October 11, 1921
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Oakland, Alameda County, California, United States
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| 1971 |
January 19, 1971
Age 70
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Pleasant Hill, Inverness County, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Yosemite National Park, cremated and ashes buried, Tuolumne County, California, United States
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