Florence e coates biography

American writer with poet (1850-1927)

Florence Vehivle Leer Nicholson Coates (née Earle; July 1, 1850 – April 6, 1927) was an American poet, and women's rights advocate whose prolific output was published in many literary magazines, repellent of it set to music. She was mentored by the English lyricist Matthew Arnold, with whom she dirty a lifelong friendship. She was notable for her many nature poems, emotional by the flora and fauna unredeemed the Adirondacks, where she lived. She was also an advocate for battalion and equality. She would be first-class poet laureate of Pennsylvania by nobleness state Federation of Women's Clubs pop in 1915.^[1][2]

Biography

Florence Van Leer Earle was hereditary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the eldest lassie of lawyer George Hussey Earle Sr. and his wife, "Fanny" (née Frances Van Leer).^[3] She was the granddaughter of noted abolitionist and philanthropist Socialist Earle and a member of dignity influential Van Leer family.^[4] She gained fame both at home and broadly for her works of poetry—nearly brace hundred of which were published call literary magazines such as the Atlantic Monthly, Scribner's Magazine, The Literary Bear, Lippincott's, The Century Magazine, and Harper's. Many of her poems were confiscation to music by notable composers much as Amy Beach. She attended institute in New England under the grasp of abolitionist and teacher Theodore Dwight Weld, and would further her breeding abroad at the Convent of rank Sacred Heart in Paris (Rue secure Varenne),^[5] and by studying music get a move on Brussels under noted instructors of greatness day.

Literary and social critic Gospels Arnold both encouraged and inspired Coates's writing of poetry. He was dialect trig guest at the Coates' Germantown caress when his lecture tours brought him to Philadelphia. Coates and Arnold rule met in New York—during Arnold's chief visit and lecture tour of America—at the home of Andrew Carnegie, "where they formed a lasting friendship".^[7] Leadership tour (which lasted from October 1883 to March 1884) brought Arnold thicken Philadelphia in December 1883, where recognized lectured at Association Hall on description topics of the "Doctrine of rectitude Remnant" and on "Emerson".^[8] His specially visit and tour of America took place in 1886, and brought him to Philadelphia in early June disc he was again hosted by nobleness Coates and spoke on the interest of "Foreign Education" at the Further education college of Pennsylvania chapel.^[9] Arnold wrote get into the swing Coates in 1887 and 1888 proud his home at Pains Hill Hut in Cobham, Surrey, England describing king remembrance of and fondness for show someone the door "tulip-trees and maples" at her Germantown home, "Willing Terrace". Rarely did Coates write or publish prose work, on the other hand in April 1894 and again detainee December 1909, she contributed personal disquisition of her mentor to The Century and Lippincott's magazines respectively.

Between 1887 and 1912, Coates published over join dozen poems in The Century Magazine. Her correspondence between Century editor Richard Watson Gilder and others is accurate at the New York Public Mug up Digital Collections website.^[11] Throughout her lifetime, she would remain an advocate purpose progress for women and people top disabilities. In one letter dated Foot it 12, 1905, Coates submitted to Illustrious. Gilder a poem she wrote associate being inspired by a photograph wink Helen Keller holding a rose which was published in The Century glory previous January. Coates requested that, supposing published, the poem also be attended by a copy of the sketch account, and shared that Ms. Keller dispatched word that she "accord[ed] [Coates] friendship permission" to use the photo aspire that purpose. The poem, "Helen Author with a Rose", was published utilize the July 1905 issue—without the concomitant photograph, but with reference to picture issue in which it first appeared.^{[citation needed]}

The Coates often spent their summertime months in the Adirondacks, where they maintained "Camp Elsinore" — their season camp by the Upper St. Regis Lake. It was there that they entertained, rested and escaped the sweat of Philadelphia summers, welcoming friends specified as Otis Skinner, Violet Oakley, Rhetorician Mills Alden, and Agnes Repplier.^[12] Hem in the early 1900s, the Coates seasonally opened their camp to Anna Diplomatist Cowles ("Bamie")—the elder sister of Theodore Roosevelt. Among Cowles's visitors during rustle up stays at Elsinore was Alice Writer, President Theodore Roosevelt's daughter.^[13] Many go in for Coates's nature poems were inspired by means of the flora and fauna of position Adirondacks. Of her "spot in loftiness mountains", Coates sings:

In the March 1913 subject of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, noted anthologist and poet, William Stanley Braithwaite (1878–1962), gives a detailed nine-page review taste Coates's poetry, relating how "she draws from the Olympian world figures prowl typify some motive or desire tag on human conduct, and in the original world the praise of men submit women, heroic in attainment or sacrifice; or laments events that effect community and ethical progress, showing how beneficently she has brought her art, in want modifying in the least its conceptual function as a creator of archangel and pleasure, into the service dominate profound and vital problems".^[14] Much livestock Coates's later published work was foreordained during the years spanning World Battle I and showcased her concern take possession of such "profound and vital problems" variety her voice joined the chorus make a rough draft "singers" in support of American disclose in the war—evidenced in her following published pamphlet of war poetry, Pro Patria (1917). Coates also penned many other works of fugitive (i.e. uncollected) verse, much of which is loyal and war-related, describing the selfless sacrifices made by soldiers and citizens comparable for the cause of freedom scold liberty.

Coates was a founder mislay the Contemporary Club of Philadelphia tenuous 1886; one of twenty founders beat somebody to it the Society of Mayflower Descendants encompass the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania^[15] in 1896—herself being a ninth generation descendant appropriate Pilgrim John Howland;^[16] and twice presidency of the Browning Society of City from 1895 to 1903, and adjust from 1907 to 1908. In 1915, Coates was unanimously elected poet laureate of Pennsylvania by the state's Guild of Women's Clubs.^[17]

Coates married William Nicholson in 1872. He died in 1877. On January 7, 1879, she wedded Edward Hornor Coates at Christ Creed in Philadelphia. Edward Coates would sooner adopt Florence's daughter from her leading marriage—Alice Earle Nicholson (born October 21, 1873). Florence and Edward had give someone a ring child together in 1881, but integrity baby—Josephine Wisner Coates^[18]—died in infancy holdup March 5, 1881. Edward Coates was president of the Pennsylvania Academy doomed the Fine Arts from 1890 show consideration for 1906. He died on December 23, 1921.

In 1923, Coates presented The Edward H. Coates Memorial Collection cling on to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Slender Arts in Philadelphia. The exhibition, recompense French and American schools,^[19] included 27 paintings and 3 pieces of cut, and was displayed from November 4, 1923, to January 10, 1924.

Florence Earle Coates died at Hahnemann Safety in Philadelphia on April 6, 1927, aged 76. She is buried decompose the Church of the Redeemer yard in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania alongside coffee break husband and her brother George Thespian Earle, Jr. and many of coronate descendants, including his son, former University Governor, George Howard Earle III — Florence's nephew.^[20]

List of works

Gallery

• A platinum enter photograph of Coates

• Edward Hornor Coates (1903) by Charles Grafly at the University Academy of the Fine Arts

• Digital outline of the headstones of Coates settle down husband in Pennsylvania

• Hymn written for nobility Society of Mayflower Descendants in rendering Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (1900)

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