Diaries, 1890-1922.

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Diaries, 1890-1922.

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The diaries describe daily life in and around Cambridge, Massachusetts, including family life, transcriptions of conversations, fashions, theatre, concerts, reflections on current events, and descriptions of acquaintances. Also describe in some detail two trips to Europe. Earlier diaries include her early literary aspirations, studies at Radcliffe, and frequent discussions of poetry and music. Later diaries occasionally include short poetic compositions, descriptions of outings with poets Edwin Arlington Robinson and Amy Lowell, and comments on the publication and staging of her plays. Also included are some ephemera, clippings, pressed plants, and photographs of Peabody and her family inserted into the diaries.

14 v. (2 linear ft.)

Houghton Library

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Lowell, Amy, 1874-1925

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Amy Lowell (1874-1925) was born in Brookline, Massachusetts. Her brother, Abbot Lawrence Lowell, was president of Harvard University. At age 36, Lowell had her first poem published in the Atlantic Monthly. In 1912, her first book of poems, A dome of many colored glasses was published. She became associated with the Imagists poets when Ezra Pound, whom she had met on a trip to England, included one of her poems in his anthology, Des imagistes. Lowell wrote critical articles for periodicals in add...

Robinson, Edwin Arlington, 1869-1935

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Peterborough (Hillsborough Co.), N.H. poet. From the description of Papers, 1928. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36405152 Robinson was an American poet. From the description of Miscellaneous papers, 1882-1935. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612365637 From the description of Letters to Harry de Forest Smith, 1888-1936 (inclusive), 1890-1900 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122505878 From the description...

Peabody, Josephine Preston, 1874-1922

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Peabody was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. After the death of her father in 1882, the family moved to Dorchester, Mass. She attended Latin School in Boston, and was a special student at Radcliffe College, 1894-1896. She published fourteen volumes of poems and verse plays, and lectured on poetry and literature at Wellesley College, 1901-1903. A pacifist and feminist, she joined the Fabian Society in 1909, and wrote a prose play, Portrait of Mrs. W. (Mary Wollstonecraft). She died in Cambridge, Mass. For ...