Josephine Preston Peabody
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poet and dramatist. She was born in New York and educated at the Girls' Latin School
Boston Latin Academy
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, Boston, and at Radcliffe College
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.
From 1901 to 1903 she was instructor in English
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at Wellesley. In 1906 she married Prof. L. S. Marks from Harvard University
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. The Stratford-on-Avon prize went to her in 1909 for her drama The Piper, which was produced in England
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in 1910; and in America at the New Theatre
Century Theatre
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, New York City
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, in 1911.
Her other work includes The Wayfarers: A Book of Verse (1898); Fortune and Men's Eyes: New Poems, with a Play (1900); The Wings (1905), a drama; The Book of the Little Past (1908); The Singing Man (1911), poems; The Wolf of Gubbio (1913), and a drama, New Poems (1915).
External links
- January 23, 1916 New York Times: Free Verse Hampers Poets and Is Undemocratic; Josephine Preston Peabody Says That, Nevertheless, the War Is Making Poetry Less Exclusive and the Imagiste Cult Will Be Swept Away
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