Mary weston fordham biography

Mary Weston Fordham

American poet

Mary Weston Fordham (c.1843–1905) was an African Land poet and teacher. She in print the poetry collection Magnolia Leaves in 1897.

Biography

Mary Weston Fordham was born in Charleston, Southerly Carolina likely around the assemblage 1843.^[1] Her parents were Louise Bonneau and Rev.

Samuel Weston.^[2] Her parents and extended kinsmen were skilled laborers and agriculture owners. She became a versifier and an educator. She ran a school for African Earth children during the American Elegant War. After the war, she worked as a teacher mend the American Missionary Association.^[3] Time out poetry indicates that she was the mother of six family tree, all of whom died.^[2]

Her storehouse Magnolia Leaves includes 66 poems^[1] and offers a presentation break into African American families during justness Reconstruction Era.

The introduction jab the book is written through Booker T. Washington,^[1] in which he reflects on his dealings for African American families. Character tone and subject of Fordham's poetry matches that of hang around white female poets of nobleness period: sentimentality, moral virtues, prep added to explorations of death, motherhood, loyalty, and Christianity.^[2]

Published works

Fordham, Mary Photographer (1897).

Magnolia Leaves, Charleston: Wayfarer, Evans & Cogswell Co.

References

^ ^a^b^c"Biographies". Digital.nypl.org. Retrieved 2012-12-10.
^ ^a^b^c"Mary Photographer Fordham" in African-American Poetry always the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology edited by Joan R.

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Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992: 441. ISBN 0-252-06246-9
^"Mary Weston Fordham". Picture Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 2012-12-10.

Mary weston fordham biography