Letter 1900-1910, Staten Island, N.Y. [to] Edwin Markham, [California] / Anna Catherine Markham. 1900-1910.

Markham, Edwin, 1852-1940

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California poet. Raised near Vacaville, became a schoolteacher in Coloma and later in Oakland. Became famous overnight with publication of "The Man with a Hoe," his protest against brutalization of labor, in "San Francisco Examiner" (January 15, 1899). Following this success Markham moved to New York where he scored another triumph with "Lincoln and Other Poems" (1901). He became a well-known reader of his own poems and lecturer of idealistic views, but his creative output for remainder of life ...

Markham, Anna Catherine, 1859-1938

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Wife of Edwin Markham and secretary of the Poetry Society of America. From the description of Letter, 1927 April 18, Staten Island, N.Y., to Perry Walton, Boston. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 184905008 ...

Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849

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Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American author, poet, and critic. In 1834 Poe married his cousin Virginia, who was not quite fourteen at the time, and began seriously seeking a means of supporting "his family." In the spring of 1835, the family moved back to Richmond where Poe took a position with the Southern Literary Messenger . Poe used the opportunity to publish several of his poems and short tales in the paper, but he also began developing his reputation as a pugnacious critic by contr...

Markham, Virgil, 1899-

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