Related Research Articles
Elizabeth Bishop was an American poet and short-story writer. She was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1949 to 1950, the Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry in 1956, the National Book Award winner in 1970, and the recipient of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1976. Dwight Garner argued in 2018 that she was perhaps "the most purely gifted poet of the 20th century". She was also a painter, and her poetry is noted for its careful attention to detail; Ernest Hilbert wrote “Bishop’s poetics is one distinguished by tranquil observation, craft-like accuracy, care for the small things of the world, a miniaturist’s discretion and attention."
The Boston Brahmins, or Boston elite, are members of Boston's historic upper class. From the late 19th century through the mid-20th century, they were often associated with a cultivated New England accent, Harvard University, Anglicanism, and traditional British-American customs and clothing. Descendants of the earliest English colonists are typically considered to be the most representative of the Boston Brahmins. They are considered White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs).
The Cabot family is one of the Boston Brahmin families, also known as the "first families of Boston".
Lucy Larcom was an American teacher, poet, and author. She was one of the first teachers at Wheaton Female Seminary in Norton, Massachusetts, teaching there from 1854 to 1862. During that time, she co-founded Rushlight Literary Magazine, a submission-based student literary magazine which is still published. From 1865 to 1873, she was the editor of the Boston-based Our Young Folks, which merged with St. Nicholas Magazine in 1874. In 1889, Larcom published one of the best-known accounts of New England childhood of her time, A New England Girlhood, commonly used as a reference in studying antebellum American childhood; the autobiographical text covers the early years of her life in Beverly Farms and Lowell, Massachusetts.
William Brewster was an American ornithologist. He co-founded the American Ornithologists' Union (AOU) and was an early naturalist and conservationist.
Anna Atkins was an English botanist and photographer. She is often considered the first person to publish a book illustrated with photographic images. Some sources say that she was the first woman to create a photograph.
Francis Boott was an American physician and botanist who was resident in Great Britain from 1820.
Gardiner Greene (1753–1832) was a cotton planter and merchant from Boston, Massachusetts who conducted business from his plantation, Greenfield, in Demerara (Guyana) in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Socially prominent in the town of Boston, he owned a house, greenhouse, and garden filled with fruit trees and peacocks on Cotton Hill, opposite Scollay Square. He was also the son-in-law of painter John Singleton Copley.
Katharine Cameron RWS RE was a Scottish artist, watercolourist, and printmaker, best known for her paintings and etchings of flowers. She was associated with the group of artists known as the Glasgow Girls.
Anna Cabot Lowell was an American writer.
Thomas Kirk was an English-born botanist, teacher, public servant, writer and churchman who moved to New Zealand with his wife and four children in late 1862. The New Zealand government commissioned him in 1884 to compile a report on the indigenous forests of the country and appointed him as chief conservator of forests the following year. He published 130 papers in botany and plants including The Durability of New Zealand Timbers, The Forest Flora of New Zealand and Students' Flora of New Zealand.
Jane Elizabeth Kempton was an American contralto opera solo singer who had an active career spanning over fifty years starting in 1850. She sang in hundreds of performances across the United States and Europe during her long career.
Sarah Fitton was an Irish writer and botanist. Assisted by her sister Elizabeth, Sarah Fitton wrote Conversations on Botany (1817), framed as a series of conversations between a mother and her son on botany and the principles of Linnaean taxonomy. The book focuses on the identification and use of plants in a domestic setting, and influenced the popularity of botany as a field of scientific study for women. Color engravings differ between editions of the book.
Nathaniel Booth was an African American who escaped from slavery.
Sarah James Eddy was an American artist and photographer who specialized in the platinotype process, also known as platinum prints. She was active in abolition, reform, and suffragist movements, and was a philanthropist as well as instrumental in the founding of the Rhode Island Humane Society. She was inducted into the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame in 2017.
The Dante Society of America is an American academic society devoted to the study of Dante Alighieri. One of the oldest scholarly societies in North America, it predates both the Modern Language Association, founded in 1883, and the American Historical Association, founded in 1884. After the German Dante Society, it is the second-oldest scholarly organization devoted to the study of Dante. The Society was also one of the first scholarly societies in the United States to have women among its founding members. The current president is Alison Cornish of New York University.
Zechariah Symmes was an English Puritan clergyman who emigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in New England and became pastor of the First Church in Charlestown, an office he held continuously from 1634 to his death in 1671. Although not one of the original Charlestown founders of 1629, on arrival in 1634 he swiftly found his place among them in the church they had convened two years previously. One of the many emigrant ministers who emerged from Emmanuel College, Cambridge, he was a close fellow-worker among the leading lights of the "Bible Commonwealth".
John Arthur Fraser was an English artist, photography entrepreneur and teacher. He undertook various paintings for the Canadian Pacific Railway. He is known for his highly realistic landscapes of Canada and the United States, many of them watercolor paintings.
Robert Lowell Moore was the co-founder of the Sheraton Hotels and Resorts international chain along with his college roomate Ernest Henderson. He was also the father of author Robin Moore.
References
- 1 2 3 Wells, James Hayden; Wells, Anita (1951). The Reverend William Wells, Bromsgrove, England and Brattleboro, Vermont: his family and descendants. Quotations from family letters and records. San Diego, California: Arts & Crafts Press. p. 76.
- ↑ Congress, The Library of. "Moore, Jane Newell, 1857-1945 - LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies | Library of Congress, from LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress)". id.loc.gov. Retrieved 2024-10-10.
- 1 2 Moore, Jane Newell; Chickering, Elmer; Hardy, A. N.; Seaver, C.; Whipple, John Adams (1860), Newell family photograph album, Notman Photo Co. (Boston, Mass.), OCLC 908149485 , retrieved 2024-10-10
- 1 2 3 Rudolph, Emanuel D. (1990). "Women who Studied Plants in the Pre-Twentieth Century United States and Canada". Taxon. 39 (2): 151–205. doi:10.2307/1223016. ISSN 0040-0262 – via Wiley Online Library.
- ↑ Newell, Jane H. (1888). Outlines of Lessons in Botany: For the Use of Teachers, or Mothers Studying with their Children. Part I: From Seed to Leaf. Illustrated by H. P. Symmes.
- ↑ Newell, Jane H. (1892). Outlines of Lessons in Botany: For the Use of Teachers, or Mothers Studying with their Children. Part II: Flower & Fruit. Illustrated by H. P. Symmes. Boston: Ginn & Company.
- ↑ Moore, Jane Newell (1898). A reader in botany. Vol. 1. Ginn & Co.
- ↑ Moore, Jane Newell (1893). "The Flowers of the Horsechestnut". Botanical Gazette. 18 (3): 107--109. doi:10.1086/326906.
- ↑ New England Aviators 1914-1918, Vol. I: Their Portraits and Their Records. Schiffer Publishing, Limited. 1997. p. 232. ISBN 978-0-7643-0345-6.
- ↑ Moore, Jane Newell; Warren, W. Shaw; Seaver, C.; Conly, C. F.; Zimmerman, Charles A.; Hawes, Josiah Johnson (1860), Photograph album of the Moore, Newell, and Tiffany families, Zimmerman Portrait Gallery, Charles D. Fredricks & Co, Litchfield Studios, Pach Brothers (Firm), Notman Photo Co. (Boston, Mass.), OCLC 908148952 , retrieved 2024-10-10
- ↑ "Robert and Eleanor Moore Collection, 1943-1963". concordlibrary.org. Concord Free Public Library. 2016. Archived from the original on 2023-04-01. Retrieved 2024-10-08.
