The Singing Man, a collection of poems exhibiting Peabody’s growing concern with social injustice, appeared in 1911. In 1908 she published The Book of the Little Past, a collection of poems for children, and in 1909 The Piper, a verse drama on the Pied Piper legend, which won the Stratford Prize Competition and was produced at theatres in London and New York City. Her early verse shows the influences of Shakespeare, Robert Browning, and the Pre-Raphaelites, especially Christina Rossetti it is marked by delicacy, clarity, and a certain otherworldliness. From 1901 to 1903 she lectured on poetry and literature at Wellesley (Massachusetts) College.Īfter a European tour in 1902 Peabody produced The Singing Leaves (1903), a collection of poems. Her first volume of verse, The Wayfarers (1898), was followed by Fortune and Men’s Eyes (1900), a one-act play built on Shakespeare’s sonnets, and Marlowe (1901), a verse play on Christopher Marlowe. Her formal schooling nearly ended with three years at the Girls’ Latin School in Boston (1889–92), but, after poems of hers had been accepted by the Atlantic Monthly and Scribner’s Magazine in 1894, Peabody was enabled by a patron to attend Radcliffe College in Cambridge as a special student (1894–96). Her first published work was a poem that appeared in The Woman’s Journal in 1888, when she was 14 years old. Peabody had absorbed her parents’ love of literature and the theatre, and she read and wrote constantly. Peabody grew up in Brooklyn until 1884, when the death of her father and the consequent poverty of her family forced them to move to the home of her maternal grandmother in Dorchester, Massachusetts.
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