Lucia C. G. Grieve Explained

Lucia C. G. Grieve
Birth Name:Lucia Catherine Graeme Grieve
Birth Date:April 30, 1862
Birth Place:Dublin, Ireland
Death Date:November 26, 1946 (aged 84)
Death Place:Asbury Park, New Jersey, U.S.
Occupation:Poet, scholar, educator

Lucia Catherine Graeme Grieve (April 30, 1862 – November 26, 1946) was an Irish-born American poet, educator, and scholar who wrote and lectured about India.

Early life and education

Grieve was born in Dublin and raised in New York City, the daughter of David Graeme Grieve and Martha Lucy Kinkead Grieve.[1] [2] Her sister Louise H. Grieve was a physician and medical missionary in India.[3] She graduated from Wellesley College in 1883,[4] and completed doctoral studies at Columbia University in 1898, with a dissertation on death and burial in Greek tragedies. Her doctoral work included studies at Oxford from 1896 to 1897.

Career

Grieve taught at several private girls' schools after college. She opened and ran a co-educational school in Thomasville, Georgia in 1899,[5] focused on languages, literature, and art. She wrote poetry and fiction,[6] and gave public lectures about India,[7] sometimes in costume.[8] [9]

In the 1930s, Grieve was president of the Ocean Grove Round Table, a women's club in New Jersey.[10] [11] In 1945, she gave a lecture to the group about "numerous experiences in taking her pet cat on 50,000 miles of travel."[12] She was a member of the American Oriental Society, the London Poetry Society, the Kipling Society of London, and the Women's Foreign Missionary Society.[13] [14]

Publications

Personal life

Grieve died in 1946, at the age of 84, at a hospital in Asbury Park, New Jersey.[20]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Klaus . Karttunen . 2020-10-16 . Persons of Indian Studies: Grieve, Lucia Catherine Graeme – . 2024-10-30 . en-US.
  2. Book: Hamersly . Lewis Randolph . Who's who in New York City and State . Leonard . John William . Mohr . William Frederick . Knox . Herman Warren . Holmes . Frank R. . Downs . Winfield Scott . 1924 . L.R. Hamersly Company . 539 . en.
  3. News: March 9, 1932 . Dr. Louise H. Grieve . Asbury Park Press . 2 . Newspapers.com.
  4. Book: Auerbach, Jerold S. . Explorers in Eden: Pueblo Indians and the Promised Land . 2008-03-16 . UNM Press . 978-0-8263-3946-1 . 33–35 . en.
  5. News: August 23, 1899 . The Thomasville Academy (advertisement) . The Daily Times-Enterprise . 3 . Georgia Historic Newspapers.
  6. News: December 14, 1936 . Artistic, Literary Lights Revealed in Search for County's Celebrities . Asbury Park Press . 10 . Newspapers.com.
  7. News: Round Table Group Hears Talk on India . Asbury Park Press . 13 . Newspapers.com.
  8. News: December 13, 1905 . Life of a Brahman Woman; Her Home Environments Described by Mrs. Lucia C. G. Grieve . Evening Star . 19 . Newspapers.com.
  9. News: May 6, 1908 . Life of a Brahmin Woman; Dr. Lucia C. G. Grieve's Interesting Lecture in Brooklyn Institute Course . Brooklyn Eagle . 24 . Newspapers.com.
  10. News: September 11, 1940 . Dr. Lucia Grieve Heads Round Table . Asbury Park Press . 10 . Newspapers.com.
  11. News: December 3, 1935 . Tribute Paid to Bible Translators . Asbury Park Press . 6 . Newspapers.com.
  12. News: May 2, 1945 . Dr. Lucia Grieve Gives Travel Talk . Asbury Park Press . 10 . Newspapers.com.
  13. News: June 23, 1938 . Dr. Grieve is Elected by Church Mission Unit . Asbury Park Press . 17 . Newspapers.com.
  14. News: April 28, 1938 . Dr. Grieve Will Speak at W. F. M. S. Session . Asbury Park Press . 15 . Newspapers.com.
  15. Book: Grieve, Lucia Catherine Graeme . Death and Burial in Attic Tragedy: Death and the dead . 1898 . Columbia University . en.
  16. Grieve . Lucia C. G. . 1904 . Some Folk-Stories of Rāmdās the Last of the Sages . Journal of the American Oriental Society . 25 . 185–188 . 10.2307/592560 . 592560 . 0003-0279.
  17. Grieve . Lucia C. G. . 1909 . The Dasara Festival at Satara, India . Journal of the American Oriental Society . 30 . 1 . 72–76 . 10.2307/3087499 . 3087499 . 0003-0279.
  18. Grieve, Lucia C. G. (1910) "The Muharram in Western India" The Open Court 8(1910): Article 3.
  19. Grieve . Lucia C. G. . 1927 . The Collecting of Coins in India . Journal of the American Oriental Society . 47 . 185–186 . 10.2307/593255 . 593255 . 0003-0279.
  20. News: November 27, 1946 . Lucia C. G. Grieve, Poet, an Authority on India, Dies in New Jersey at Age of 84 . The New York Times . 25.

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