Josephine Preston Peabody

Josephine Preston Peabody (May 30, 1874 – December 4, 1922) was an American poet and dramatist. She was born in New York and educated at the Girls' Latin School, Boston, and at Radcliffe College.^[1]

From 1901 to 1903 she was instructor in English at Wellesley. In 1906 she married Prof. L. S. Marks from Harvard University. The Stratford-on-Avon prize went to her in 1909 for her drama The Piper, which was produced in England in 1910; and in America at the New Theatre, New York City, in 1911.

On June 21, 1906 she married Lionel Simeon Marks, a British engineer and professor at Harvard University. They had a daughter, Alison Peabody Marks (July 30, 1908 – April 7, 2008), and a son, Lionel Peabody Marks (b. 10 February 1910).^[2][3]

Selected Works

• Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew (1897)
• The Wayfarers: A Book of Verse (1898)
• Fortune and Men's Eyes: New Poems, with a Play (1900)
• In the Silence (1900)
• Marlowe (her first play),^[4]
• The Singing Leaves; a book of songs and spells (1903)
• The Wings (1905), a drama
• The Book of the Little Past (1908)
• The Singing Man (1911), poems
• The Wolf of Gubbio (1913)
• New Poems (1915)