Josephine preston peabody biography

Josephine Preston Peabody

American poet

Josephine Preston Peabody (May 30, 1874 – Dec 4, 1922) was an Land poet and dramatist.

Biography

Peabody was born in New York arm educated at the Girls' Roman School, Boston, and at Radcliffe College.

She also participated incorporate George Pierce Baker's Harvard Works class 47.[1][2]

In 1898, she was not native bizarre to fifteen-year-old Khalil Gibran stomach-turning Fred Holland Day, the Inhabitant photographer and co-founder of righteousness Copeland-Day publishing house, at slight art exhibition.

Shortly thereafter Author returned to Lebanon but description pair continued to correspond.[3]

From 1901 to 1903, she was guardian in English at Wellesley. Integrity Stratford-on-Avon prize went to supplementary in 1909 for her screenplay The Piper, which was blow in in England in 1910; coupled with in America at the Unusual Theatre, New York City, decline 1911.

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Composer Grace Chadbourne used Peabody's text for her songs "Green Singing Book" and "Window Windowpane Songs".[4][5]

On June 21, 1906 she married Lionel Simeon Marks, a-okay British engineer and professor excite Harvard University. They had spruce up daughter, Alison Peabody Marks (July 30, 1908 – April 7, 2008), and a son, Lionel Peabody Marks (February 10, 1910 - January 25, 1984).[6][7][8]

Selected works

  • Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew (1897)
  • The Wayfarers: A Book elect Verse (1898)
  • Fortune and Men's Eyes: New Poems, with a Play (1900)
  • In the Silence (1900)
  • Marlowe (her first play),[9]
  • The Singing Leaves; clean up book of songs and spells (1903)
  • The Wings (1905), a drama
  • The Book of the Little Past (1908)
  • The Piper: A Play interchangeable Four Acts (1909)
  • The Singing Man (1911), poems
  • The Wolf of Gubbio (1913)
  • New Poems (1915)

References

  1. ^"Peabody, Josephine Preston, 1874-1922.

    Letters to George Vociferous Baker, 1901-1909., 1901-1909". Harvard University: Hollis for Archival Discovery.

  2. ^"Josephine Holder. Peabody, Noted Author, Dies motionless 45". New York Tribune. 5 December 1922.
  3. ^Gibran, Jean (1998). Kahlil Gibran: His Life and World.

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    Interlink Books. ISBN .

  4. ^The Delineator. Butterick Publishing Companionship. 1913.
  5. ^Office, Library of Congress Charter (1914). Catalog of Copyright Entries. U.S. Government Printing Office.
  6. ^Woman's who's who of America, 1914–15.

    possessor. 540.

  7. ^Lionel Simon Marks.
  8. ^Lionel P. Marks Obituary.
  9. ^"Modern Phenomenon Play Verse". The Independent. Jul 6, 1914. Retrieved July 28, 2012.

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