Josephine Preston Peabody

Josephine Preston Peabody
"The Journey": illustration by Elizabeth Shippen Green for a series of poems by Josephine Preston Peabody, entitled "The Little Past", which relate experiences of childhood from a child's perspective. Poems and illustration were published in Harper's Magazine, December 1903.

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

Biography

She was born in New York and educated at the Girls' Latin School, Boston, and at Radcliffe College.[1]

From 1901 to 1903 she was instructor 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 New Theatre, New York City, in 1911.

On June 21, 1906 she married Lionel Simeon Marks, a British engineer and professor at Harvard University. They had a daughter, Alison Peabody Marks (July 30, 1908 – April 7, 2008), and a son, Lionel Peabody Marks (b. 10 February 1910).[2][3]

Selected works

References

  1. ↑ "Josephine P. Peabody, Noted Author, Dies at 45". New York Tribune. 5 December 1922.
  2. ↑ Woman's who's who of America, 1914–15. p. 540. wikisource.org
  3. ↑ Lionel Simon Marks. findagrave.com
  4. ↑ "Modern Miracle Play Verse". The Independent. Jul 6, 1914. Retrieved July 28, 2012.
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