Caroline B. Dow
Standard Name: Dow, Caroline B.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Edna St Vincent Millay | Three years after her highschool graduation, doors suddenly opened for ESVM
to go to college, although her preparation had not reached the standard generally demanded. Donors offered to support her at Vassar College
(through Caroline B. Dow |
| Friends, Associates | Edna St Vincent Millay | During her first stay in New York she had met Sara Teasdale
and Louis
and Jean Starr Untermeyer
. During her time at Vassar, Caroline B. Dow
gradually became her patron, Aunt Calline to her... |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Edna St Vincent Millay | As a student at Vassar
she published poetry and plays in the Vassar Miscellany Monthly, including her poem The Suicide—which won her a prize but which Caroline Dow
had urged her to abandon... |
| Publishing | Edna St Vincent Millay | Against the advice of her patron Caroline Dow
, she chose to publish with Mitchell Kennerley
, who had a reputation of being high-handed and dishonourable, even dishonest, in his business dealings, but whose list... |
| Reception | Edna St Vincent Millay | 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'... |
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