CPeabody, Josephine Preston1874╨1922poet and dramatistBorn on May 30, 1874, in Brooklyn, New York, Josephine Peabody grew up there until 1884, when the death of her father and the consequent poverty of the family forced them to move to the Dorchester, Massachusetts, home of her maternal grandmother. She had early absorbed her parents╒ love of literature and the theater, and she read and wrote constantly. Her first published work was a poem in The Woman╒s Journal in 1888, when she was fourteen. Her formal schooling nearly ended with three years at the Girls╒ Latin School in Boston in 1889╨1892, but after poems of hers had been accepted by the Atlantic Monthly and Scribner╒s Magazine in 1894 she was enabled by a patron to attend Radcliffe College as a special student in 1894╨1896. Her first volume of verse, The Wayfarers, appeared in 1898 and was followed by Fortune and Men╒s Eyes, a one-act play built on Shakespeare╒s sonnets, 1900, and Marlowe, a verse play on Christopher Marlowe, 1901. From 1901 to 1903 she lectured on poetry and literature at Wellesley College. After a European tour in 1902 she produced The Singing Leaves, a collection of poems, 1903, and Pan, a choric idyll produced for a state occasion in Ottawa in 1904. Peabody╒s early verse showed the influences of Shakespeare, Browning, and the Pre-Raphaelites, especially Christina Rossetti, and throughout her career her work was marked by delicacy, clarity, and a certain otherworldliness. In June 1906 she married Lionel S. Marks, a Harvard engineering professor with whom she toured Europe for a year before settling in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1908 she published The Book of the Little Past, a collection of poems for children, and in 1909 The Piper, a verse drama on the Pied Piper legend. The Piper won the Stratford Prize Competition over 314 other entries and in July 1910 was produced at the Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon. It was warmly praised by critics in England and America and subsequently enjoyed successful productions in London and in January 1911 at the New Theatre, New York. The Singing Man, a collection of poems exhibiting her growing concern with social justice, appeared in 1911. The Wings, a verse drama written in 1907, was produced in Boston in 1912. The Wolf of Gubbio, a drama on St. Francis of Assisi, 1913, was followed by Harvest Moon, poems, 1916, The Chameleon, a comedy, 1917, Song for the Pilgrim Women, the Plymouth, Massachusetts, pageant piece for 1921, and Portrait of Mrs. W., a play about Mary Wollstonecraft, 1922. She died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on December 4, 1922. Vstyl ` * ! ¬ 5¬ % 5¬ 9 !I ─ !I ╫ !I É !I á !I Ñ !I ╣ !I 8 !I E !I l !I é !I ╜ !I ─ !I l !I ~ !I í !I ñ !I º !I ¿ !I !I Ü !I ╠ !I ╒ !I !I !I 7 !I F !I Ñ !I « !I ∩ !I !I ; !I G !I V !I c !I u !I Å !I ╩ !I ▌ !I link `
