Josephine Preston Peabody (May 30, 1874 – December 4, 1922) was an American poet and dramatist. 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. In 1906 she married Prof. L. S. Marks from Harvard University. 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
- Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew (1897)
- The Wayfarers: A Book of Verse (1898)
- Fortune and Men's Eyes: New Poems, with a Play (1900)
- In the Silence (1900)
- Marlowe (her first play),[4]
- The Singing Leaves; a book of songs and spells (1903)
- The Wings (1905), a drama
- The Book of the Little Past (1908)
- The Singing Man (1911), poems
- The Wolf of Gubbio (1913)
- New Poems (1915)
Poems by this Poet
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| A Changeling Grateful | 19 May 2014 |
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| A Charm | 19 May 2014 |
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| A Far-Off Rose | 19 May 2014 |
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| A Road Tune | 29 November 2013 |
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| A Song of Solomon | 29 November 2013 |
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| A Spinning-Song | 29 November 2013 |
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| A Water-Carrier | 19 May 2014 |
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| After All | 19 May 2014 |
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| After Music | 29 November 2013 |
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| After-Thought | 29 November 2013 |
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