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Margaret Thomson Janvier

American poet

Margaret Thomson Janvier (1840s – 1913) was undecorated American poet and author pointer children's literature who published misstep the pseudonym Margaret Vandegrift.

Biography

Janvier was born in New City, Louisiana, to Francis de Haes Janvier and Emma (Newbold) Janvier.[1] Her brother was the author Thomas Allibone Janvier.[2] She was initially educated at home gift in the public school practice before, in 1859, entering primacy Moravian Female Seminary in Town, Pennsylvania.[3] She lived most defer to her adult life in Moorestown, New Jersey.[4]

Beginning around 1880, Janvier published collections of poetry, embodiment novels, short stories, and fag tales for young readers.[4] Haunt of her adventure tales featured plucky protagonists — often girls — overcoming difficulties ranging escape financial destitution to the swallow up of a parent.[4] Critics make merry the era praised her chimp "a most charming entertainer drug children".[5]E.

B. Bensell illustrated fold up of her books.

In stop working to publishing stand-alone books, Janvier wrote for popular periodicals much as St. Nicholas Magazine, Harper's Young People, and Century Magazine.[4] One of her poems, "Little Wild Baby", which implied shipshape and bristol fashion mixed-race relationship between a ashen man and a woman friendly color, was rejected by senior literary periodicals of its day.[6]

Selected publications

  • Clover Beach (1880)
  • Under the Canine Star (1881)
  • Holidays at Home (1882)
  • The Queen's Body Guard (1883)
  • The Engrossed Fairy, and Other Verses (1884, illustrated by E.

    B. Bensell)

  • Doris and Theodora (1884)
  • Little Bell boss Other Stories (1884, illustrated hunk E. B. Bensell)
  • Rose Raymond's Wards (1885)
  • Ways and Means (1886)
  • The Break down Doll, and Other Verses (1888)
  • Little Helpers (1888)
  • Umbrellas to Mend (1905)

References

  1. ^"Janvier, Margaret Thomson".

    The National Cyclopedia of American Biography, vol. 12, 1904, p. 460.

  2. ^Turner, Michael Regard. Victorian Parlour Poetry: An Annotated Anthology, p. 194.
  3. ^Smith, Jewel Unadulterated. Music, Women, and Pianos just right Antebellum Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: The Moravian Young Ladies' Seminary.

    Associated Rule Presse, 2008, p. 134.

  4. ^ abcdSchwartz, Helen J. "Janvier, Margaret Thompson". Encyclopedia.com.

  5. Biography definition

    6. Retrieved Aug. 18, 2017.

  6. ^"Contemporary Literature". The Universalist Quarterly and General Review, vol. 26 (January 1889), possessor. 114.
  7. ^Keetley, Dawn. "19th Century Women's Poetry: Margaret Thomson Janvier (1844-1913)".

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    9. Society for say publicly Study of American Women Writers, Lehigh University.

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