Butler, Marie Radcliffe; Butler, Thomas D. (Editor)

Poetry and Prose of Marie Radcliffe Butler

Cincinnati, Ohio: Standard Publishing Company, 1884. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good / No Jacket. Item #2331064

First edition. Boards soiled, first blank missing, title page soiled, some pages foxed. Contemporary photograph laid in.

xviii, 361 pp. Green cloth, gilt titles, black stamped decorations, all edges gilt, decorated endpapers. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Marie was the daugh­ter of Fan­nie H. Bur­ridge Rad­cliffe, and wife of min­is­ter Tho­mas Da­ve­nal But­ler. When she was two years old, her fa­mi­ly moved to Cu­ya­ho­ga Falls, Ohio. It was there that, at age 13, Ma­rie wrote one of her first poe­ms, The Fall­ing Leaf, which was pub­lished in its orig­in­al form ma­ny years af­ter­wards, in the Christ­ian Stand­ard. In 1853, her par­ents moved to Wheel­ing, Vir­gin­ia (now West Vir­gin­ia), where her fa­ther died in a chol­e­ra ep­i­de­mic not long aft­er. Her mo­ther then op­ened a school for in­struct­ion in mu­sic, draw­ing and em­broid­e­ry, and Marie be­came her as­sist­ant. While in Wheel­ing, Ma­rie won first prize at the coun­ty fair for a ser­ies of pen­cil sketch­es. In 1857, Mrs. Rad­cliffe ac­cept­ed a gov­er­ness po­si­tion at a pri­vate board­ing school in Browns­bo­ro, Ken­tuc­ky, with Ma­rie again serv­ing as her as­sist­ant. In Browns­bo­ro, Marie's mo­ther mar­ried to Dea­con John S. Chris­to­pher, of Lou­is­ville, Ken­tuc­ky, and soon af­ter, Marie en­tered the Lou­is­ville Fe­male High School to fin­ish her ed­u­ca­tion. Marie con­trib­ut­ed ma­ny po­ems to the Christ­ian Stand­ard and to the New York In­de­pen­dent. By 1876, Ma­rie was liv­ing in De­troit, Mi­chi­gan. She was ac­tive in the Wo­men's Chris­tian Tem­per­ance Un­ion in her lat­er years. - Hymn Time

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