Sallie Bridges

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Sarah Bridges Stebbins, a Philadelphian better known under the pen name Sallie Bridges [1] (1830-1910), was an American poet, best known today for her adaptations of Arthurian legend. [2]

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Writing career

Bridges's Marble Isle (1864) [3] is a collection of poetic adaptations from Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur . According to Daniel Helbert, she is the first American writer "to truly adapt and interpret Malory's text as a comprehensive literary enterprise". [1]

Annals of a Baby, was first published anonymously in 1877 and was written by John Habberton. (See: John Habberton) It is a humorous look at motherhood and family life; it tells of the birth and growth of a nameless baby in a world of stock characters--the Young Mother, the Young Aunties, the Fat Nurse, etc. The book was published in the "Helen's Babies" series. [4] (This paragraph should be stricken from this report on Sallie Bridges Stebbins.)

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Poetry

References

  1. 1 2 Helbert, Daniel (2019). "Malory in America". In Leitch, Megan G.; Rushton, Cory James (eds.). A New Companion to Malory. D. S. Brewer. pp. 296–316. ISBN   9781843845232.
  2. ↑ Salda, Michael N. (2000). "King Arthur in America by Alan Lupack and Barbara Tepa Lupack". Arthuriana . 10 (1): 142–144. doi:10.1353/art.2000.0025. S2CID   160754619.
  3. ↑ Nemerov, Alexander (2010). Acting in the Night: Macbeth and the Places of the Civil War. U of California P. pp. 37–40. ISBN   9780520947443.
  4. ↑ Habberton, John (1882). "The Annals of a Baby". Mrs. Mayburn's Twins: With Her Trials in the Morning, Noon, Afternoon and Evening of Just One Day. T.B. Peterson & Brothers. p. 14.
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