Josephine Preston Peabody



Josephine Preston Peabody (May 30, 1874 - December 4, 1922) was an American poet and dramatist.

Life
She was born in New York and educated at the Girls' Latin School, Boston, and at Radcliffe College.

From 1901 to 1903 she was an instructor in English at Wellesley College. In 1906 she married Prof. L.S. Marks from Harvard University.

Recognition
The Stratford-on-Avon prize went to her in 1909 for her drama The Piper, which was produced in England in 1910; and in America at the New Theatre, New York City, in 1911.

Publications
Her other work includes The Wayfarers: A Book of Verse (1898); Fortune and Men's Eyes: New Poems, with a Play (1900); The Wings (1905), a drama; The Book of the Little Past (1908); The Singing Man (1911), poems; The Wolf of Gubbio (1913), and a drama, New Poems (1915).