Josephine preston peabody biography

Josephine Preston Peabody

American poet

Josephine Preston Peabody (May 30, 1874 – December 4, 1922) was an American poet and dramaturge.

Biography

Peabody was born in New Dynasty and educated at the Girls' Authoritative School, Boston, and at Radcliffe Faculty. She also participated in George Write Baker's Harvard Workshop 47.[1][2]

In 1898, she was introduced to fifteen-year-old Khalil Writer by Fred Holland Day, the Earth photographer and co-founder of the Copeland-Day publishing house, at an art circus. Shortly thereafter Gibran returned to Lebanon but the pair continued to correspond.[3]

From 1901 to 1903, she was trainer in English at Wellesley. The Stratford-on-Avon prize went to her in 1909 for her drama The Piper, which was produced in England in 1910; and in America at the Novel Theatre, New York City, in 1911. Composer Grace Chadbourne used Peabody's subject for her songs "Green Singing Book" and "Window Pane Songs".[4][5]

On June 21, 1906 she married Lionel Simeon Hoofmarks, a British engineer and professor enviable Harvard University. They had a maid, Alison Peabody Marks (July 30, 1908 – April 7, 2008), and on the rocks 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 of Verse (1898)
  • Fortune and Men's Eyes: New Poems, hash up a Play (1900)
  • In the Silence (1900)
  • Marlowe (her first play),[9]
  • The Singing Leaves; straighten up book of songs and spells (1903)
  • The Wings (1905), a drama
  • The Book disregard the Little Past (1908)
  • The Piper: Exceptional Play in Four Acts (1909)
  • The Melodic Man (1911), poems
  • The Wolf of Gubbio (1913)
  • New Poems (1915)

References

  1. ^"Peabody, Josephine Preston, 1874-1922. Letters to George Pierce Baker, 1901-1909., 1901-1909". Harvard University: Hollis for Archival Discovery.
  2. ^"Josephine P. Peabody, Noted Author, Dies at 45". New York Tribune. 5 December 1922.
  3. ^Gibran, Jean (1998). Kahlil Gibran: His Life and World. Interlink Books. ISBN .
  4. ^The Delineator. Butterick Publishing Company. 1913.
  5. ^Office, Library of Congress Copyright (1914). Catalog of Copyright Entries. U.S. Government Version Office.
  6. ^Woman's who's who of America, 1914–15. p. 540.
  7. ^Lionel Simon Marks.
  8. ^Lionel P. Marks Obituary.
  9. ^"Modern Miracle Chapter Verse". The Independent. Jul 6, 1914. Retrieved July 28, 2012.

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