Eloise Roorbach

She taught drawing locally as a young woman,[1] then studied art in New York City, where she met and married one of the instructors, landscape painter George S. Roorbach, in 1889.

They moved to San Francisco together and built a redwood bungalow at Brookdale, in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

[2] Eloise Roorbach published travel essays about California, usually writing about a trip through the wilderness or along the coast, sometimes with her own illustrations.

[3][4] "The most desirable place in the world is, generally, that enchanted spot just a little beyond the foot of ground we happen to be in," she declared of her pleasure in exploring her adopted state.

[5] Roorbach left her husband in 1910 and relocated back to New York City, where she worked as an editor at Craftsman Magazine, writing mainly (but not exclusively) about garden topics.