Florence Converse
Wellesley College Archives. Shakespeare Society members performing A Midsummer Night's Dream in the woods. Florence Converse, 1893 (Puck); Mabel Wells 1896 (Oberon); Caroline Newman, 1893 (Bottom), 1893
Florence Converse (1871–1967) was an American author.
Biography[]
Florence Converse was born in New Orleans in 1871.
She graduated from Wellesley College in 1893 and was a member of the editorial staff of from 1900 to 1908, when she joined the staff of the Atlantic Monthly. Converse wrote several novels. These included Long Will, a novel about the Peasants' Revolt of 1381. [1]
She was in a lesbian relationship with Vida Dutton Scudder and they are buried alongside each other at Newton Cemetery, Newton, Massachusetts.[2]
Bibliography[]
- Diana Victrix (1897)
- The Burden of Christopher (1900)
- Long Will, A Romance (1903)
- The House of Prayer (1908)
- A Masque of Sibyls (1910)
- The Children of Light (1912)
- The Story of Wellesley (1915)
- The Blessed Birthday (1917)
- Garments of Praise (1921)
- Thy Kingdom Come: A Dream for Easter Even (1921)
- Santa Conversazione: An All Saints Miracle (1921)
- The Holy night (1922)
- The Happy Swan (1925)
- Into the Void (1926)
- Sphinx (1931)
- Efficiency Expert (1934)
- Collected poems of Florence Converse (1937)
- The Madman and the Wrecking Crew (Crux Ave, Spes Unica) (1939)
- Wellesley College, a chronicle of the years 1875-1938 (1939)
- Prologue to Peace: the Poems of Two Wars (1949)
References[]
- ^ Ortenberg, Veronica (1981). In Search of the Holy Grail: the Quest for the Middle Ages. London: Hambledon Continuum. (p.79) ISBN 978-1-85285-383-9. (p. 79).
- ^ Lillian Faderman, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America, Penguin Books Ltd, 1991, (pp. 23-24). ISBN 0-231-07488-3
Attribution[]
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. Missing or empty
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External links[]
- Works by Florence Converse at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Florence Converse at Internet Archive
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