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Victoria Case (1897-1973) was born May 24th in Dallas, Texas to Henry Oscar Case and Jane Hammond Case. She attended college at the University of Oregon, graduating in 1921. In the years 1922-1929 she worked for many Oregon newspapers, including The Oregonian, The Astorian, The Portland Telegram, and The Portland Journal. She wrote numerous short stories that were published in magazines including Saturday Evening Post, Good Housekeeping, Ladies Home Journal, Reader's Digest, Farm Journal, Liberty and others.
In addition to writing, Ms. Case was the journalism instructor and publicity director for Albany College in Albany Oregon (1931-1935). She worked as assistant publicity director for the U.S. Resettlement Administration in Portland Oregon during the years 1935-1937. She began her freelance writing career in 1938. She wrote two books with Robert Ormond Case: Last Mountains: The Story of the Cascades in 1945, and We Called it Culture: The Story of the Chautauqua in 1948. On her own she wrote The Quiet Life of Mrs. General Lane in 1952, Applesauce Needs Sugar in 1960, and A Finger in Every Pie in 1963. Doubleday published all of these.
Victoria Case was a member of the Shakespeare Club, Friends of the Library (McMinnville, Oregon) and Theta Sigma Phi. She died in 1973.
The Victoria Case Papers contain manuscripts, drafts, tearsheets and related correspondence for a number of her short stories, articles and books. Also included are notes and research materials. The Victoria Case Papers contain a collection of magazines from the late 1800s and early 1900s and include The Century Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Harpers and Good Housekeeping. Also included is a pulp collection, including romance novels and westerns written between 1938-1949.