Josephine Preston Peabody
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1874 – 1922
Who was Josephine Preston Peabody?
Josephine Preston Peabody was an American poet and dramatist. She was born in New York and educated at the Girls' Latin School, Boston, and at Radcliffe College.
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.
Her other work includes The Wayfarers: A Book of Verse; Fortune and Men's Eyes: New Poems, with a Play; Marlowe, The Wings, a drama; The Book of the Little Past; The Singing Man, poems; The Wolf of Gubbio, and a drama, New Poems.
On June 21, 1906 she married Lionel Simeon Marks, a British engineer and professor at Harvard University. They had a daughter, Alison Peabody Marks, and a son, Lionel Peabody Marks.
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- Born
- May 30, 1874
New York City - Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- Radcliffe College
- Lived in
- Boston
- New York City
- Died
- Dec 4, 1922
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on July 23, 2013
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