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SPEAKER_00: Hello.From Wonder Media Network, I'm Jenny Kaplan, and this is Womanica. Historically, women have been told to make themselves smaller, to diminish themselves.Some have used that to their advantage, disappearing into new identities.For others, a disappearance was the end to their stories, but the beginning of a new chapter in their legacies.This month, we're talking about disappearing acts.Today, we're talking about a writer whose legal woes careened her career and life off the map and out of the public eye.Let's talk about Ida Hillis Ottis. Ida was born in Kansas around 1857.After the American Civil War began, her family moved to Mexico.
Her father was a photographer.His work took him all over the country.Ida often accompanied him.On these trips, she got to see Mexico through a different lens, a lens that uplifted the country's indigenous cultures, history, and the oral tales one generation passed down to the next.When she was 15 years old, Ida's family moved to Los Angeles. Ida graduated high school there and got a job teaching.In her spare time, she wrote fictional prose for a San Francisco paper called The Argonaut.Because of her upbringing in Mexico, Ida was fluent in Spanish, so she also wrote and contributed to Mexican newspapers and periodicals.She was possibly the first American writer to translate Mexican legends into English. Her work told tales of the supernatural and centered women protagonists adventuring through love and romance.
She wrote about life in California and in Mexico.Her story depicted cross-cultural understanding and introduced U.S.audiences to the traditions and history of Mexico.Ida's work gained momentum, and soon she was writing for publications like Harper's Monthly, the Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Times. Her wit and charm translated off the page into real life.With her success came the attention of many men.In 1887, Ida accepted a marriage proposal from former California governor John G. Downey, but they never made it to the altar.His family disproved of the relationship, and the governor called it off.Ida sued him for half a million dollars for breach of promise.And so began Ida's life in court.
To take the heat off of her after going to court, Ida went back to Mexico.But trouble managed to find its way below the border.While there, the wife of Ida's editor accused Ida of stealing her husband.Ida was named as a co-defendant in the wife's lawsuit against her husband.With two scandals to her name, Ida tried her luck again in California.She was working on her book, A History of Southern California Counties. Her research led her straight into the arms of attorney Charles Stork.The couple married on September 10th, 1890.Ida finished writing her book and retired to take care of her new husband's teenage son.So when Charles cashed the $400 check from Ida's book deal and didn't give her a dime, Ida was particularly hurt.
She left him and told her story to an LA Times reporter. According to Ida, her husband began abusing her three weeks after the marriage.The story prompted an angry letter from Charles back to the LA Times.He tried to discredit Ida, saying she tried to take her own life, took extreme dislike to his son, and threatened Charles' life twice.It was an arduous process.The case moved up through court after court for years until the divorce was officially granted in 1895. Charles was ordered to pay alimony and Ida's attorney fees.Unfortunately, the nightmare didn't even end there.Charles continued to appeal.It wasn't until 1897 that the California Supreme Court forced Charles to pay up.
During this debacle, Ida moved to San Francisco and resumed writing stories.Her writing was sharper than ever.Her stories always had themes of feminism, but now they were stronger and more focused. In 1898, the Santa Barbara News Press, the paper Charles published, and a few local officials received anonymous letters.These letters accused one Dr. Winchester of engaging in immoral and scandalous conduct.The doctor in question had testified against Ida and her divorce case, and the handwriting on the letters looked just like Ida's.All signs pointed to Ida. Ida denied her involvement and insisted she was set up by her ex-husband's employee, a man named Teddy Grant Jackson.But despite her protests, Ida was charged with criminal libel.While awaiting her sentence, Ida took matters into her own hands.
She broke into Jackson's home.She said all she did was beg him to confess to framing her.He said she tried to kill him with chloroform while he was sleeping. Either way, Ida was thrown in jail for eight months with an attempted murder charge hanging over her head.The case was eventually dismissed, and months later, she won an appeal on her libel case, too.After she was released, Ida disappeared from California in the public eye completely.Her name ceased to appear in newspapers and public records. Some stories say that after years of legal battles persecuting her on the grounds of insanity, she did check herself into a mental institution.According to another story, her only plan post-incarceration was to leave Santa Barbara for good and go somewhere she wouldn't be persecuted.The truth about her post-incarceration life largely remains unknown.
What we know for sure is that in her disappearance, she left an impressive body of written work and a whirlwind of tabloid stories in her wake. All month, we're talking about disappearing acts.For more information, find us on Facebook and Instagram at Womanica Podcast.Special thanks to Liz Kaplan, my favorite sister and co-creator.Talk to you tomorrow.
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