Английская Википедия:Anna Cabot Quincy Waterston
Шаблон:Infobox writer Anna Cabot Quincy Waterston (Шаблон:Nee, Quincy; pen names, A. C. Q. W. and W. A. C. Q.; June 27, 1812 – October 14, 1899) was a 19th-century American writer of poems, novels, hymns, and a diary.Шаблон:Sfn
Early life and family
Anna Cabot Lowell Quincy was born June 27, 1812, in Boston, Massachusetts.[1] She was the youngest daughter of Josiah Quincy III, who served as president of Harvard University, U.S. Representative, and Mayor of Boston. Her mother was Eliza Susan Morton Quincy.Шаблон:Sfn Anna's grandfather, Josiah Quincy II, had also served as mayor of Boston, as did her brother, Josiah. Her other siblings were: Eliza, Abigail, Maria, Margaret, and Edmund.Шаблон:Sfn
On April 21, 1840, she married Rev. Robert C. Waterston (1812–93).Шаблон:Sfn After passing two years in Europe, and, just as they were all about to return home, their daughter, Helen Ruthven Waterston (1841 - July 25, 1858), died at Naples, Italy.Шаблон:Sfn
Career
Some of Waterston's verses were printed in 1863, in a small volume.Шаблон:Sfn She also published articles in The Atlantic Monthly.Шаблон:Sfn Her pen names included, "A. C. Q. W.",Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn and "W. A. C. Q.".Шаблон:Sfn
In 1870, after visiting Jeanne Carr, Waterston left Oakland, California, for Yosemite.Шаблон:Sfn Waterston was able to gather around her a wide circle of friends and acquaintances. She knew well and was intimately associated with many of the most distinguished people of the former generation. When her father entertained Lafayette, she was a school girl, but the occasions made such an impression upon her mind that she retained a vivid remembrance of it in later years. The cause of the blind was important to her ever since the establishment of the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind.Шаблон:Sfn
Death and legacy
Waterston died October 14, 1899,[1] at her home, No. 526 Massachusetts Avenue, in Newton, Massachusetts, where she lived since 1860, and was buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery. Her carved marble bust was sculpted by Edmonia Lewis and is held by the Smithsonian American Art Museum.[2] In 2003, her diary, written at the age of seventeen, was posthumously published under the title A Woman's Wit and Whimsy.Шаблон:Sfn
Selected works
- Quincy
- Sketchbook, ca. 1835
- Together, 1863
- Verses, 1863
- Edmonia Lewis. (The young colored woman who has successfully modelled the bust of Colonel Shaw.)., 1865
- Adelaide Phillipps: A Record. Boston: A. Williams and Company, 1883.
Posthumously published
- A Woman's Wit & Whimsy: The 1833 Diary of Anna Cabot Lowell Quincy, edited by Beverly Wilson Palmer. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2003.
See also
References
Attribution
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Bibliography
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- Beverly Wilson Palmer (ed.), A Woman's Wit & Whimsy: The 1833 Diary of Anna Cabot Lowell Quincy, Boston : Northeastern University Press, 2003.
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