Английская Википедия:Caroline M. Sawyer
Шаблон:Use mdy dates Шаблон:Infobox writer Caroline M. Sawyer (Шаблон:Nee, Fisher; pen name, Mrs. C. M. Sawyer; December 10, 1812 – May 19, 1894) was a 19th-century American poet, writer, and editor.Шаблон:Sfn Her writings ranged through a wide variety of themes. Born in 1812, in Massachusetts, she began composing verse at an early age, but published little till after her marriage. Thereafter, she wrote much for various reviews and other miscellanies, besides several volumes of tales, sketches, and essays. She also made numerous translations from German literature, in prose and verse, in which she evinced an appreciation of the original. Sawyer's poems were numerous, sufficient for several volumes, though they were not published as a collection.Шаблон:Sfn
Early life and education
Caroline Mehitable Fisher was born in Newton, Massachusetts, December 10, 1812. She was related to the Gores, Danas, Gridleys, Foxcrofts and Kendricks, and was a descendant of Thomas Cranmer. Sawyer's maternal grandfather (with whom she lived with a widowed mother and a highly educated but invalid uncle) was John Kendrick, who commanded a company at the Battles of Lexington and Concord, and was a conscientious abolitionist.Шаблон:Sfn
At a Baptist Sunday school, where the Bible and Isaac Watts' hymns were committed to memory, Sawyer recited the first eight chapters of the Gospel of Mark when she was just eight years old. Before the age of ten, she had read Shakespeare, John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, Plutarch's Parallel Lives, as well as Hume's and Smollett's History of England.Шаблон:Sfn
At school, after eating lunch, she would improvise stories of knights and ladies, fairies and hobgoblins, for her fellow students. This continued until the invalid uncle, whose life had been passed in pursuits of science and literature, removed her from the country school to his own supervision.Шаблон:Sfn She was then carefully and thoroughly educated at home.Шаблон:Sfn Soon after this, he prepared an herbarium of the hundreds of wild plants of New England growing within Шаблон:Convert of Boston, for the Royal Botanical Society of Edinburgh, Scotland; in all these collections and preparations, the uncle instructed Sawyer in the science of nature. Sawyer was also educated in French and German, as well as history and mythology.Шаблон:Sfn
Career
Sawyer started writing when very young. The "Burlington Sentinel" published her first poem. Young as she was, she was a welcome contributor to the "Sentinel," and afterward to the "Boston Evening Gazette" and " Democratic Review."Шаблон:Sfn
In September 1831, she married Rev. Thomas J. Sawyer, D.D.,Шаблон:Sfn the pastor of Orchard Street Church, in New York City.Шаблон:Sfn At the end of about 15 years, Rev. Sawyer was chosen president of Clinton Liberal Institute, Universalist seminary at Clinton, Oneida County, New York, and they moved to that town when he assumed the office.Шаблон:Sfn
Sawyer was one of the most prolific writers of Christian universalism denominational literature. During Sawyer's 25 years in New York, she was constantly recording writing. She was a contributor to "Graham's Magazine," the "Knickerbocker Magazine", and the "Democratic Review". For several years, she was a constant contributor to the "Odd Fellows' Magazine," published in Baltimore, Maryland; and for Horace Greeley's "New Yorker". Park Benjamin Sr., opened the door into the "New World" for Sawyer. Her stories, essays and poems were excellent. Her translations from the French and German were graceful.Шаблон:Sfn
Sawyer became editor of the "Rose of Sharon" in 1849; she was a constant contributor from its first appearance, in 1840, during Sarah Carter Edgarton Mayo's editorship. In 1860, she became editor of The Ladies' Repository. For several years, she was editor of the youth's department in the Christian Messenger,Шаблон:Sfn as well as the Universalist Union (1835–47).Шаблон:Sfn
Personal life
In 1881, Thomas J. Sawyer, D.D., was Packard Professor of Theology in Tufts College,Шаблон:Sfn and Dean of the Department of Divinity.Шаблон:Sfn
She died May 19, 1894, in Somerville, Massachusetts, and was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts.[1]
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External links
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- Caroline Mehitable Fisher Sawyer at Unitarian Universalist History and Heritage Society
- Caroline Mehitable Fisher Sawyer at Notable American Women, 1607–1950: A Biographical Dictionary, by Radcliff College, 1971
- Caroline M. Sawyer at The Life of Thomas J. Sawyer . .: And of Caroline M. Sawyer, by Richard Eddy, 1900 (Public domain)
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