Sallie Bridges Explained
Sarah Bridges Stebbins, a Philadelphian better known under the pen name Sallie Bridges[1] (1830-1910), was an American poet, best known today for her adaptations of Arthurian legend.[2]
Writing career
Bridges's Marble Isle (1864)[3] is a collection of poetic adaptations from Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur. According to Daniel Helbert, she is the first American writer "to truly adapt and interpret Malory's text as a comprehensive literary enterprise".[1]
Annals of a Baby, first published anonymously and in 1878 and republished, with the author's full name, in 1882, is a humorous look at motherhood and family life; it tells of the birth and growth of a nameless baby in a world of stock characters--the Young Mother, the Young Aunties, the Fat Nurse, etc. The book was published in the "Helen's Babies" series.[4]
Bibliography
Poetry
- Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=euE4AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA265 . 264–65 . Poems of Places: America . Henry Wadsworth . Longfellow . J. R. Osgood . 1879 . Santa Cruz . Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
- What Are the Wild Waves Saying?, Out Of the Shell . 302, 337 . . 50 . 1882.
- A Child's Mission . 356 . 1885 . Demorest's Family Magazine . 21.
- Barye . Modern Art . 1 . 4 . 1893 . 25609823 . Stebbins . Sallie Bridges . 10.2307/25609823 .
External links
Notes and References
- Book: Helbert, Daniel . A New Companion to Malory . Megan G. . Leitch . Cory James . Rushton . D. S. Brewer . 2019 . 9781843845232 . Malory in America . 296–316.
- King Arthur in America by Alan Lupack and Barbara Tepa Lupack . Michael N. . Salda . . 10 . 1. 2000 . 142–144 . 10.1353/art.2000.0025. 160754619 .
- Book: Nemerov, Alexander . Acting in the Night: Macbeth and the Places of the Civil War . U of California P . 2010 . 9780520947443 . 37–40.
- Book: Habberton, John . https://books.google.com/books?id=QwBCAQAAMAAJ&pg=PT14 . 14 . The Annals of a Baby . Mrs. Mayburn's Twins: With Her Trials in the Morning, Noon, Afternoon and Evening of Just One Day . T.B. Peterson & Brothers . 1882.
