Mary Page Bird Explained

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Mary Bowdoin Page Bird (–) was an American poet and novelist.

Mary Bowdoin Page was born on in Cobham, Albemarle County, Virginia. She was the daughter of Carter Henry Page and Leila Graham Page and a member of the prominent Page family.[1] [2] In 1892, she married Gilbert Bonham Bird from Berwickshire.[3] They lived in England and later in North Carolina.[4] She wrote poetry and particularly focused on the sonnet form. She had reportedly written a hundred sonnets by her early twenties. She published numerous poems in publications, including Lippincott's and Harper's. In 1894, she published her first novel, Wedded to a Genius, under the pseudonym Neil Christison. It was about a woman, Judith, married to a doctor who emotionally abuses her.[5] [6] She also serialized her work Sir Wilfred in the magazine Things and Thoughts.

Mary Page Bird died in 1924 in London.[7]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Page, Richard Channing Moore . Genealogy of the Page Family in Virginia: Also, a Condensed Account of the Nelson, Walker, Pendleton, and Randolph Families, with References to the Bland, Burwell, Byrd, Carter, Cary, Duke, Gilmer, Harrison, Rives, Thornton, Welford, Washington, and Other Distinguished Families in Virginia . 1893 . Publishers' Print. Company . 126 . en.
  2. Book: Knight, Lucian Lamar . Biographical dictionary of Southern authors . 1978 . Detroit : Gale Research Co. . Internet Archive . 978-0-8103-4269-9 . 36.
  3. Book: Glenn, Thomas Allen . Some Colonial Mansions: And Those who Lived in Them : with Genealogies of the Various Families Mentioned . 1898 . H. T. Coates . 209 . en.
  4. Book: The Writer . 1901 . The Writer . 9–10 . en.
  5. Book: Grimes, Janet . Novels in English by women, 1891-1920 : a preliminary checklist . 1981 . New York : Garland Pub. . Internet Archive . 978-0-8240-9522-2.
  6. Book: Daims, Diva . Toward a feminist tradition : an annotated bibliography of novels in English by women, 1891-1920 . 1982 . New York : Garland Pub. Co. . Internet Archive . 978-0-8240-9523-9.
  7. Web site: The Baltimore Sun 28 Oct 1924, page 5 . 2023-01-17 . Newspapers.com . en.
  8. Web site: Author: Mary Bowdoin Bird . 2023-01-17 . At the Circulating Library A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901.

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