Английская Википедия:Fannie H. Marr

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:COI Шаблон:Infobox writer Fannie H. Marr (July 2, 1835 – October 18, 1918), born Frances Harrison Marr, was an American author and poet. At an early age, she contributed poems to newspapers and magazines. Many of her fugitive verses were incorporated in Local and National Poets of America and other standard collections of poetry. She was the author of three volumes of poems entitled Heart Life in Song (1874), Virginia and Other Poems (1881), and Songs of Faith (1888).Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

Early life and education

Fannie Marr was born in Warrenton, Fauquier County, Virginia on July 2, 1835.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Of French and Scotch descent,Шаблон:Sfn her parents were Catherine Inman (Шаблон:Nee Horner) Marr (1797-1879) and John Marr (1788-1848), who had married in 1816.

John Marr was the grandson of a French immigrant with the surname "La Mar". John Marr had been a Commissioner in Chancery in the Supreme and County Courts, much like a court-appointed trustee in later times, as well as a justice of the peace.Шаблон:Sfn He owned enslaved African Americans,Шаблон:Efn as would his widow and a son, John Quincy Marr, by 1860.Шаблон:Efn

Fannie's brother, John Quincy Marr (1825–1861), taught at Virginia Military Institute (VMI) as an assistant professor of mathematics and tactics after graduating, but he returned home in 1848 to care for his mother and sisters Sarah/Sally (1819-1895), Margaret (1830-1903), Frances, and Jane (1840-1927).Шаблон:Sfn Her brothers, Thomas Scott Marr (1830-1897) and James Ripon Marr (1832-1879), left home by 1850.Шаблон:Sfn Her brother, Robert Athelstan Marr (1823-1854), was a Lieutenant in the United States Navy;Шаблон:Sfn he took part in the Mexican–American War; fired the first shot in the naval attack on Vera Cruz; and was lost in the Caribbean Sea with the entire crew of the USS Albany, in October, 1854.Шаблон:Sfn John Q. was a member of the Virginia Secession Convention of 1861. He served as captain of the Warrenton Rifles, Seventeenth Virginia Regiment, and was the first Confederate soldier killed in an engagement with the enemy during the American Civil War,Шаблон:Sfn being shot at Fairfax Court House, in July 1861.

Fannie Marr was educated in the public and private schools of the South.Шаблон:Sfn Owing to her delicate health, she had only four years of school education.Шаблон:Sfn

Career

Marr taught for several years after the Civil War, and then began to write more for amusement than from any other reasons. She published her works under the name "Fannie H. Marr",Шаблон:Sfn and won the prize offered by a Georgia paper.Шаблон:Sfn

Her first collection of poems, Heart Life in Song, at 165 pages, was published in 1874 in Baltimore, by Turnbull brothers.Шаблон:Sfn A second edition of 183 pages was published in 1883. In 1881, her Virginia and Other Poems appeared, published in Philadelphia, by Sherman & Co.Шаблон:Sfn The longer poems in this book are the weaker. The best are those of religious feeling; they are short, rhythmical and tender.

According to Painter in Poets of Virginia (1907), these two volumes deal with plain, homely themes, as may be judged from such titles as "Old Letters", "Family Portraits", "To My Books", and "Summer Evening". They show a good degree of poetic feeling and literary skill; and if there is a tendency to diffuseness, it included a pure and gentle spirit. In the preface of one of the volumes, Marr writes of the sources from which she drew inspiration. A religious sentiment is dominant with nothing of the doubts and vagaries of skepticism. In a time of theological unrest and innovating beliefs, she preferred to follow the old paths. In "A Simile", Marr gives expression to St. Augustine's thought that the human soul was made for God, and is never entirely at peace till it finds Him. The title poem of the second volume was inspired by a patriotic love; and perhaps nowhere else have the glories of Virginia been more fully and successfully sung. It is divided into eight brief parts. In "Life" the author reaches as high a strain as in any other of her pieces. She believes in the worth and dignity of life, and "the boon of immortality".Шаблон:Sfn Songs of Faith came out in 1888. These poems were described as being full of faith, trust, and love. Her religious ones were "pure and tender, and they have comforted the mourning and soothed the dying".Шаблон:Sfn

Marr's poem, "My Suit of Confederate Gray", was written in 1889, and published in The Baltimore Sun approximately one year after, accredited to her. It was then copied by a number of newspapers in the South, as its sentiment struck a responsive chord with those who sympathized with the Confederate cause. On February 4, 1907, the poem was re-published in The Baltimore Sun, this time being attributed to James Clay, a citizen of Baltimore, but the plagiarism was promptly exposed.Шаблон:Sfn

Marr wrote a number of other poems, some of which were published in The Baltimore Sun. Of one of them, “Memorial Flowers," the editor of the paper in which it was published wrote: "It glows with poetic fire".Шаблон:Sfn

Personal life

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Marr's grave in the Warrenton Cemetery

Since birth, Marr resided continuously in Warrenton, living at the old home owned by her grandfather over a century earlier.Шаблон:Sfn She died at her home on October 18, 1918.Шаблон:Sfn The funeral took place at St. James' Episcopal Church, Warrenton, and interment was at Warrenton Cemetery in her home town. Her sister, Jane, survived her, as well as three nephews.

Publications

• Heart-Life in Song, 1874
• Virginia and Other Poems, 1881
• Songs of Faith, 1888

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