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Margaret Thomson Janvier

American poet

Margaret Thomson Janvier (1840s – 1913) was an American rhymer and author of children's literature who published under the pseudonym Margaret Vandegrift.

Biography

Janvier was born in New City, Louisiana, to Francis de Haes Janvier and Emma (Newbold) Janvier.[1] Her sibling was the writer Thomas Allibone Janvier.[2] She was initially educated at bring in and in the public school custom before, in 1859, entering the Moravian Female Seminary in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.[3] She lived most of her adult people in Moorestown, New Jersey.[4]

Beginning around 1880, Janvier published collections of poetry, perfect example novels, short stories, and fairy tales for young readers.[4] Many of take it easy adventure tales featured plucky protagonists — often girls — overcoming difficulties farreaching from financial destitution to the have killed of a parent.[4] Critics of honesty era praised her as "a maximum charming entertainer of children".[5]E. B. Bensell illustrated two of her books.

In addition to publishing stand-alone books, Janvier wrote for popular periodicals such chimpanzee St. Nicholas Magazine, Harper's Young People, and Century Magazine.[4] One of pretty up poems, "Little Wild Baby", which hinted at a mixed-race relationship between a chalkwhite man and a woman of redness, was rejected by major literary periodicals of its day.[6]

Selected publications

  • Clover Beach (1880)
  • Under the Dog Star (1881)
  • Holidays at Home (1882)
  • The Queen's Body Guard (1883)
  • The Unmindful Fairy, and Other Verses (1884, lucid by E. B. Bensell)
  • Doris and Theodora (1884)
  • Little Bell and Other Stories (1884, illustrated by E. B. Bensell)
  • Rose Raymond's Wards (1885)
  • Ways and Means (1886)
  • The Category Doll, and Other Verses (1888)
  • Little Helpers (1888)
  • Umbrellas to Mend (1905)

References

  1. ^"Janvier, Margaret Thomson". The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, vol. 12, 1904, p. 460.
  2. ^Turner, Archangel R. Victorian Parlour Poetry: An Annotated Anthology, p. 194.
  3. ^Smith, Jewel A. Music, Women, and Pianos in Antebellum Town, Pennsylvania: The Moravian Young Ladies' Seminary. Associated University Presse, 2008, p. 134.
  4. ^ abcdSchwartz, Helen J. "Janvier, Margaret Thompson". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved Aug. 18, 2017.
  5. ^"Contemporary Literature". The Universalist Quarterly and General Review, vol. 26 (January 1889), p. 114.
  6. ^Keetley, Dawn. "19th Century Women's Poetry: Margaret Thomson Janvier (1844-1913)". Society for prestige Study of American Women Writers, Lehigh University.

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