Jessie Ann Gaebele

1891–1986

Jessie Ann Gaebele was a Midwestern commercial photographer and Jane Kirkpatrick’s grandmother, whose early career inspired the Portraits of the Heart novels.

This person is linked because Jane Kirkpatrick portrays the historical figure under their own identity. Dialogue, private motives and undocumented incidents are imaginative reconstruction and should not be read as a complete biography.

Series

Historical novels and book series featuring Jessie Ann Gaebele (1 series)

Portraits of the Heart in Order

by Jane Kirkpatrick 2 books 3.8(594)

Portraits of the Heart is inspired by Jessie Ann Gaebele, Jane Kirkpatrick’s grandmother, who entered commercial photography as a teenager in early-twentieth-century Minnesota. The two novels follow Jessie from apprenticeship through itinerant studio work as she develops technical skill, business confidence and an artistic identity in a profession…

All books in this series

1. A Flickering Light

2. An Absence so Great

3.8(594)