Zoe Kincaid Penlington
Zoë Rowena Kincaid Penlington (March 2, 1878 – March 28, 1944) was a Canadian-born American journalist, critic, and editor. She wrote Kabuki: The Popular Stage in Japan (1925), considered "the first extensive study of kabuki in English". (Her first name is written both with and without the diaeresis in sources.) Early life and education Zoe Kincaid was born in Peterborough, Ontario and raised in Olympia, Washington, the daughter of Robert Kincaid and Mary Margaret Bell Kincaid. Her father was an Irish-born Canadian surgeon and a veteran of the Union Army in the American Civil War. Her older brother Trevor Kincaid became a noted biologist. She graduated from Olympia High School, and from the University of Washington in 1902. In college she was the founding editor of the yearbook and the literary editor of the school newspaper. In 1908, she was elected president of the University of Washington Alumnae Association. Career Kincaid worked as a journalist in Washington state as a young woman, especially at The Westerner, a regional literary magazine. She moved to Tokyo in 1908, to write and teach English. She was founding co-editor Japan Magazine, an English-language monthly launched in 1910 as the official publication of the Tokyo