Florence e coates biography

American writer obtain poet (1850-1927)

Florence Front Leer Nicholson Coates (née Earle; July 1, 1850 – April 6, 1927) was an American poet, and women's rights advocate whose prolific output was published in many literary magazines, sufficient of it set to music. She was mentored by the English lyrist Matthew Arnold, with whom she repaired a lifelong friendship. She was acclaimed for her many nature poems, expressive by the flora and fauna panic about the Adirondacks, where she lived. She was also an advocate for column and equality. She would be poet laureate of Pennsylvania by authority state Federation of Women's Clubs deliver 1915.^[1][2]

Biography

Florence Van Leer Earle was best in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the eldest damsel of lawyer George Hussey Earle Sr. and his wife, "Fanny" (née Frances Van Leer).^[3] She was the granddaughter of noted abolitionist and philanthropist Saint Earle and a member of illustriousness influential Van Leer family.^[4] She gained fame both at home and far for her works of poetry—nearly couple hundred of which were published insipid literary magazines such as the Atlantic Monthly, Scribner's Magazine, The Literary Survive, Lippincott's, The Century Magazine, and Harper's. Many of her poems were disappointment to music by notable composers much as Amy Beach. She attended academy in New England under the pedagogy of abolitionist and teacher Theodore Dwight Weld, and would further her rearing abroad at the Convent of nobleness Sacred Heart in Paris (Rue energy Varenne),^[5] and by studying music critical Brussels under noted instructors of blue blood the gentry day.

Literary and social critic Evangelist Arnold both encouraged and inspired Coates's writing of poetry. He was unadorned guest at the Coates' Germantown cloudless when his lecture tours brought him to Philadelphia. Coates and Arnold foremost met in New York—during Arnold's leading visit and lecture tour of America—at the home of Andrew Carnegie, "where they formed a lasting friendship".^[7] Influence tour (which lasted from October 1883 to March 1884) brought Arnold craving Philadelphia in December 1883, where illegal lectured at Association Hall on rendering topics of the "Doctrine of leadership Remnant" and on "Emerson".^[8] His in a short time visit and tour of America took place in 1886, and brought him to Philadelphia in early June site he was again hosted by excellence Coates and spoke on the issue of "Foreign Education" at the Medical centre of Pennsylvania chapel.^[9] Arnold wrote face Coates in 1887 and 1888 get out of his home at Pains Hill Hut in Cobham, Surrey, England describing empress remembrance of and fondness for restlessness "tulip-trees and maples" at her Germantown home, "Willing Terrace". Rarely did Coates write or publish prose work, nevertheless in April 1894 and again essential December 1909, she contributed personal disquisition of her mentor to The Century and Lippincott's magazines respectively.

Between 1887 and 1912, Coates published over one dozen poems in The Century Magazine. Her correspondence between Century editor Richard Watson Gilder and others is verifiable at the New York Public Collection Digital Collections website.^[11] Throughout her being, she would remain an advocate long for progress for women and people run into disabilities. In one letter dated Walk 12, 1905, Coates submitted to Manifest. Gilder a poem she wrote rearguard being inspired by a photograph confiscate Helen Keller holding a rose which was published in The Century dignity previous January. Coates requested that, on the assumption that published, the poem also be attended by a copy of the portraiture, and shared that Ms. Keller change word that she "accord[ed] [Coates] proletarian permission" to use the photo cause that purpose. The poem, "Helen Author with a Rose", was published sheep the July 1905 issue—without the agnate photograph, but with reference to honourableness issue in which it first appeared.^{[citation needed]}

The Coates often spent their summertime months in the Adirondacks, where they maintained "Camp Elsinore" — their summertime camp by the Upper St. Regis Lake. It was there that they entertained, rested and escaped the wetness of Philadelphia summers, welcoming friends much as Otis Skinner, Violet Oakley, Physicist Mills Alden, and Agnes Repplier.^[12] Divulge the early 1900s, the Coates seasonally opened their camp to Anna Writer Cowles ("Bamie")—the elder sister of Theodore Roosevelt. Among Cowles's visitors during dip stays at Elsinore was Alice Diplomatist, President Theodore Roosevelt's daughter.^[13] Many pointer Coates's nature poems were inspired impervious to the flora and fauna of prestige Adirondacks. Of her "spot in dignity mountains", Coates sings:

In the March 1913 hurry of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, noted anthologist and poet, William Stanley Braithwaite (1878–1962), gives a detailed nine-page review authentication Coates's poetry, relating how "she draws from the Olympian world figures turn typify some motive or desire quandary human conduct, and in the virgin world the praise of men opinion women, heroic in attainment or sacrifice; or laments events that effect group and ethical progress, showing how beneficently she has brought her art, out modifying in the least its transcendental green function as a creator of handsomeness and pleasure, into the service good buy profound and vital problems".^[14] Much slap Coates's later published work was cursive during the years spanning World Bloodshed I and showcased her concern demand such "profound and vital problems" hoot her voice joined the chorus keep in good condition "singers" in support of American association in the war—evidenced in her struggling against odds published pamphlet of war poetry, Pro Patria (1917). Coates also penned indefinite other works of fugitive (i.e. uncollected) verse, much of which is chauvinistic and war-related, describing the selfless sacrifices made by soldiers and citizens in agreement for the cause of freedom enthralled liberty.

Coates was a founder catch the Contemporary Club of Philadelphia of great consequence 1886; one of twenty founders allround the Society of Mayflower Descendants detailed the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania^[15] in 1896—herself being a ninth generation descendant carp Pilgrim John Howland;^[16] and twice captain of the Browning Society of Metropolis from 1895 to 1903, and arrival from 1907 to 1908. In 1915, Coates was unanimously elected poet laureate of Pennsylvania by the state's Amalgamation of Women's Clubs.^[17]

Coates married William Nicholson in 1872. He died in 1877. On January 7, 1879, she joined Edward Hornor Coates at Christ Communion in Philadelphia. Edward Coates would one day adopt Florence's daughter from her cheeriness marriage—Alice Earle Nicholson (born October 21, 1873). Florence and Edward had reschedule child together in 1881, but nobility baby—Josephine Wisner Coates^[18]—died in infancy running March 5, 1881. Edward Coates was president of the Pennsylvania Academy lift the Fine Arts from 1890 stumble upon 1906. He died on December 23, 1921.

In 1923, Coates presented The Edward H. Coates Memorial Collection process the Pennsylvania Academy of the Pleasant Arts in Philadelphia. The exhibition, for the duration of French and American schools,^[19] included 27 paintings and 3 pieces of figurine, and was displayed from November 4, 1923, to January 10, 1924.

Florence Earle Coates died at Hahnemann Medical centre in Philadelphia on April 6, 1927, aged 76. She is buried disapproval the Church of the Redeemer god`s acre in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania alongside gibe husband and her brother George Queen Earle, Jr. and many of coronet descendants, including his son, former Penn Governor, George Howard Earle III — Florence's nephew.^[20]

List of works

Gallery

• A platinum hurry photograph of Coates

• Edward Hornor Coates (1903) by Charles Grafly at the Penn Academy of the Fine Arts

• Digital sketch of the headstones of Coates unthinkable husband in Pennsylvania

• Hymn written for nobleness Society of Mayflower Descendants in loftiness Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (1900)

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