Florence Converse
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Florence Converse (1871–1967) was an American author.
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[edit] 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 the The Churchman from 1900 to 1908, when she joined the staff of the Atlantic Monthly.
She was in a lesbian relationship with Vida Dutton Scudder.[1]
[edit] 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: he Poems of Two Wars (1949)
[edit] References
- ^ Lillian Faderman, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America, Penguin Books Ltd, 1991, pages 23-24. ISBN 0231074883
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This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.
