Vassar College

DL held various academic teaching appointments, beginning in 1965 at the City University of New York and at Drew University in New Jersey. In 1966-7 she taught at Vassar . During the 1970s she...

On October 24 1934 she was greeted with effusive press coverage in New York. At Columbia University she had been expected to give four lectures to audiences of approximately two hundred each. However...

ESVM now cast around for work, possibly on stage. She sent out poems to magazines, often fruitlessly. She earned a little by acting with the Provincetown Players from December 1917, building on her long experience...

ESVM published her play The Princess Marries the Page (in which she had played the lead both at Vassar as an undergraduate and as a professional with the Provincetown Players ).

EB began writing poetry at the age of eight, mixing her own contributions with poems she learned by heart. The first money she earned by writing came at age twelve: a five-dollar gold piece for...

Renaissance (as it had been spelled before publication) did not win the five-hundred-dollar prize for the best poem of all; nor did it come second or third. But it received critical acclaim, and the judges'...

Vassar College holds MMC 's archive of papers. Scholarly interest in her was strong during the 1960s, resulting in at least three monographs and a bibliography by Sherli Goldman , 1968. More recent are a...

This volume includes her poems of mourning for her Vassar friend who died in the flu epidemic of 1918-19.

In 1921 ESVM was commissioned to write a play for the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Vassar . It was performed outdoors with a large cast.

MMC published through Harcourt, Brace and World the novel that became her best-known work, The Group, about eight young female friends recently graduated from Vassar College .

EB left about 3,800 pages in her handwriting contained in 118 boxes, which went to the library at Vassar College : drafts of poems (some of them entirely crossed out) and fragments of poems. Alice Quinn