Lillian Mayfield Wright Explained

Lillian Mayfield Wright
Other Names:Lillian Mayfield Roberts
Birth Date:October 24, 1894
Birth Place:Conaway, West Virginia
Death Date:February 26, 1986 (aged 91)
Death Place:Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Occupation:Poet

Lillian Perry Mayfield Roberts Wright (October 24, 1894 – February 26, 1986) was an American poet.

Early life and education

Lillian Perry Mayfield was born in Conaway, West Virginia,[1] [2] the daughter of Joshua Grant Mayfield and Florence May Carter Mayfield. She attended West Virginia Wesleyan College[3] and New York University, and studied with poet Joyce Kilmer.

Publications

Many of her poems and stories were published in national magazines under the name Lillian Mayfield Roberts.[4] "The best of these mountain poets is Lillian Mayfield Roberts," commented H. L. Mencken in The American Mercury in 1926.[5] [6] One of her poems, "Hill Hunger", was included in the anthology Modern American Lyrics (1924).[7] Her short story "The Fly on the Window" won $1000 from the West Virginia Review.[8]

Personal life and legacy

Lillian Mayfield married twice. Her first husband was George Paul Roberts; they married in 1916, and divorced in 1928.[21] Her second husband, John J. Wright, was a public health professor at the University of North Carolina; they married in 1930. She died in Chapel Hill, North Carolina in 1986, aged 91 years.[22] [23] West Virginia University holds a collection of Wright's notebooks, including the manuscript of an unpublished novel at the West Virginia & Regional History Center.[24]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Johnson . Maria C. . July 24, 1995 . Author Unknown; Charmed by a Poet's Words, a Liberty Woman Undertook a Search for the Author . 2022-05-23 . Greensboro News and Record . en.
  2. Book: Brenni, Vito Joseph . West Virginia Authors . 1957 . West Virginia Library Association . 56 . en.
  3. West Virginia Wesleyan College, Murmurmontis (1915 yearbook): 47. via Internet Archive
  4. Book: Upshur County . 2001 . Arcadia Publishing . 978-0-7385-1352-2 . 38 . en.
  5. June 1926 . The Library . The American Mercury . 8 . 254 . Internet Archive.
  6. July 27, 1926 . Mercury Falls on Miss Turner . The Shepherd College Picket . 31 . 2 . Internet Archive.
  7. Book: Modern American Lyrics: An Anthology . 1924 . Minton, Balch . 978-0-8274-2745-7 . 32 . en.
  8. Book: Wood, Warren . Representative Authors of West Virginia . 1926 . Worth-while book Company . 317 . en.
  9. News: Roberts . Lillian Mayfield . 1918-04-19 . The Prayer . 5 . The Enid Daily Eagle . 2022-05-23 . Newspapers.com.
  10. Roberts . Lillian Mayfield . November 15, 1919 . Clarksburg Season Opens . Musical America . 31 . 105.
  11. Roberts . Lillian Mayfield . November 1921 . The Professor's Wife . Scribner's Magazine . en . 70 . 1 . 548 .
  12. Roberts . Lillian Mayfleld . August 1921 . Skies are so High . McCall's . 48 . 18 . Internet Archive.
  13. Roberts . Lillian Wright . December 1921 . Tomorrow . Sunset . 47 . 76.
  14. Roberts . Lillian Mayfield . March 1921 . Requiem for Dead Hopes . The Medical Pickwick . 7 . 105.
  15. Roberts . Lillian Mayfield . September 1922 . Retrospect . House Beautiful . 52 . 272.
  16. Roberts . Lillian Mayfield . September 1922 . If (for the Wife) . The Ladies' Home Journal . 106.
  17. Roberts . Lillian Mayfield . August 1923 . In the Market . Sunset Magazine . 51 . 32 . Internet Archive.
  18. Roberts . Lillian Mayfield . December 1925 . Home . House Beautiful . 58 . 680 . Internet Archive.
  19. Roberts . Lillian Mayfield . February 1927 . Zinnias . Scribner's Magazine . 81 . 193–195 . Internet Archive.
  20. Wright . Lillian Mayfield . July 1964 . Mountain Medicine . North Carolina Folklore Journal . 12 . 7–12.
  21. News: 1928-08-02 . Suits Filed . 8 . Reno Gazette-Journal . 2022-05-23 . Newspapers.com.
  22. News: 1986-02-27 . Mrs. Lillian Wright . 24 . The Herald-Sun . 2022-05-23 . Newspapers.com.
  23. News: 1986-02-27 . Lillian P. M. Wright . 42 . The News and Observer . 2022-05-23 . Newspapers.com.
  24. Web site: Collection: Lillian Mayfield Wright, Poet, Notebooks . 2022-05-23 . West Virginia University Archivesspace.

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