Wellesley College

After graduating from high school in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, MM intended to go to Wellesley College , her mother's alma mater, which was then an all-female institution. But her father refused to fund her higher...

She supplemented her Radcliffe Institute writing fellowship (worth $5,000, awarded for a year and extended for a second year) by teaching at Wellesley College . There her course on black women writers...

Her mother, Mary Gray Staples Harvey , like her father, was from a fairly wealthy family. Mary Gray Staples was educated at Wellesley College and entertained ambitions for a literary career, but she left school...

A prolific poet throughout her career, LOC also wrote songs and composed music for them. The British Library attributes the following (along with a number of other poetic and musical works) to Chant in its...

If AF herself arranged for the transcription of new poems in a volume now known as the Wellesley Manuscript, she did so during the last seven months of her life.

It may have been her husband , however, who was concerned for the preservation of her writings; most of the fifty-seven poems in this volume are absent from the earlier manuscript and printed collections. In...

Both poems and letters by Frances Hertford survive among the rich deposits at Alnwick Castle in Northumberland, the Percy stronghold inherited by her daughter. Some letters are in the British Library , and some...

SJ corresponded with writers, politicians and activists of every stripe from many nations, but she believed it better to destroy most correspondence as soon as she had dealt with it, and she acted on this...