Seiffert, Marjorie Allen, 1885-1970

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Marjorie Allen Seiffert (1885-1970) was an American poet and playwright whose works include Ballads of the Singing Bowl, The King with Three Faces, and A Woman of Thirty . Seiffert, writing under the name of Elijah Hay, was a member of the "Spectric School," a modernist school of poetry created in 1916 as a literary hoax that parodied classifications of gender and identity.

From the guide to the Marjorie Allen Seiffert manuscript of Sanitol (MS 130), [undated], (University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries. Special Collections Dept.)

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creatorOf Adamic, Louis, 1899-1951,. Letters to Alfred Kreymborg [manuscript], 1921-1956. University of Virginia. Library
creatorOf Reese, Lizette Woodworth, 1856-1935. Papers of Lizette Woodworth Reese [manuscript], 1893-1936. University of Virginia. Library
creatorOf Marjorie Allen Seiffert manuscript of Sanitol (MS 130), [undated] University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries. Special Collections Dept.
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Birth 1885

Death 1970

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