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Louise Morgan Sill

Louise Morgan Smith Sill (December 18, 1867 – March 31, 1961) was an American poet, writer, translator, and editor.

Louise Morgan Sill
A young white woman with dark hair in an updo, wearing a dress with a high lace collar
Louise Morgan Sill, from a 1906 newspaper
Born
Louise Morgan Smith

December 18, 1867
Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands
DiedMarch 31, 1961 (age 93)
West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.
Occupation(s)Poet, writer, editor, translator
FatherMorgan Lewis Smith
RelativesGiles Alexander Smith (uncle)

Early life and education

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Smith was born in Honolulu,[1] and raised in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Morgan Lewis Smith and Louise Genella Smith. Her father was a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.[2][3] At the time of her birth, her father was the United States ambassador to Hawai'i, then an independent kingdom.[4]

Career

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Sill wrote poems that appeared in several major magazines, including Scribner's and The Atlantic.[5][6][7] "Almost everyone writes nowadays," wrote one reviewer of her 1906 collection In Sun and Shade, "but few have written anything very much better in serious poetry than Louise Morgan Sill."[8] She was an editor on the staff of Harper's Magazine from 1905 to 1910.[2] During World War I she worked at a hospital in France. She translated works from French in the 1910s and 1920s,[9][10] and wrote monthly reports on the Paris art scene for The American Magazine of Art.[11][12][13]

Publications

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  • "The 'Flying Dutchman'" (1899, poem, The Century)[5]
  • "Man and Woman" (1899, poem, The Century)[14]
  • "The Canyon of the Colorado" (1901, poem, Harper's Weekly)[15]
  • "Out of the Shadow" (1903, poem, North American Review)[16]
  • In Sun or Shade (1906, poems)[17][18]
  • "The Clue" (1906, poem, Harper's)[19]
  • "The Hoof-Beats of the Years" (1907, poem, North American Review)[20]
  • "Sunnyfield" (1909, story for young readers)
  • "The Gossip of an Ambassador" (1911, article)[21]
  • "Music" (1912, poem, North American Review)[22]
  • "The Cascade" (1913, poem, North American Review)[23]
  • "The Old Waman" (1915, poem, Scribner's)[6]
  • "After Battle" (1918, The Atlantic)[7]
  • Paul Claudel, The Tidings Brought to Mary (1916, translated from French by Sill)[24]
  • Henry Bordeaux, Guynemer, Knight of the Air (1918, translated from French by Sill)[25]
  • Charles Marc des Granges, An illustrated history of French literature (1921, translated from French by Sill)[26]
  • The Life of Lives; the story of Our Lord Jesus Christ for young people (1922)[27]
  • "A Garden...There" (1922, poem, North American Review)[28]
  • "Time is Not" (1925, poem, The Commonweal)[29]
  • "The Rearranged Luxembourg" (1926, article)[30]
  • Ernest Dimnet, The Brontë Sisters (1927, translated from French by Sill)[10]
  • The Hell-Gods and Other Poems (1928)[31]
  • "Paris: Mother of Students" (1928, article)[32]
  • "Paris Notes" (1932, article)[33]

Personal life

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Smith married George Imbrie Sill and lived with him in Central America.[1] They divorced in 1908.[2] She lived in Paris for much of her adult life,[18] and died in 1961, at the age of 93, in West Palm Beach, Florida.[34]

References

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  1. ^ a b "In the World of Letters; Well Known as a Magazine Poet". Book News Monthly. 24 (286): 713. June 1906.
  2. ^ a b c Leonard, John William, ed. Woman's who's who of America (1914): 746.
  3. ^ "Is Author of Splendid Book; Mrs. Louise Morgan Sill, Known to Bloomington Residents". The Pantagraph. 1922-12-16. p. 13. Retrieved 2024-08-25 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ Herringshaw, Thomas William (1914). Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States; Illustrated with Three Thousand Vignette Portraits ... American Publishers' Association. p. 208.
  5. ^ a b Sill, Louise Morgan (May 1899). "The 'Flying Dutchman'". The Century Magazine. 58 (1): 133.
  6. ^ a b Sill, Louise Morgan (November 1915). "The Old Woman". Scribner's Magazine. 58 (5): 587 – via Modernist Journals Project.
  7. ^ a b Sill, Louise Morgan (1918-05-01). "After Battle". The Atlantic. ISSN 2151-9463. Retrieved 2024-08-25.
  8. ^ "Books of All Sorts". Public Opinion. 40 (24): 736. June 16, 1906.
  9. ^ "Pioneer Players, The Tidings Brought To Mary". Evening Standard. 1917-06-11. p. 8. Retrieved 2024-08-25 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ a b Dimnet, Ernest; Sill, Louise Morgan (Smith) (1927). The Brontë sisters. Soeurs Brontë.English. London: Jonathan Cape.
  11. ^ Sill, Louise Morgan (1925). "Notes from Paris". The American Magazine of Art. 16 (10): 565–566. ISSN 2151-254X.
  12. ^ Sill, Louise Morgan (1927). "Paris Notes". The American Magazine of Art. 18 (8): 452–454. ISSN 2151-254X.
  13. ^ Sill, Louise Morgan (1929). "Paris Notes". The American Magazine of Art. 20 (1): 57–59. ISSN 2151-254X.
  14. ^ Sill, Louise Morgan (August 1899). "Man and Woman". The Century Magazine. 58 (4): 638.
  15. ^ Sill, Louise Morgan (May 4, 1901). "The Canyon of the Colorado". Harper's Weekly. 45 (2315): 465 – via Internet Archive.
  16. ^ Sill, Louise Morgan (1903). "Out of the Shadow". The North American Review. 176 (555): 254–256. ISSN 0029-2397.
  17. ^ Sill, Louise Morgan. (1906). In sun or shade, poems. New York London: Harper & brothers.
  18. ^ a b Wolf, Stephen (2007). I Speak of the City: Poems of New York. Columbia University Press. p. 28. ISBN 978-0-231-14065-2.
  19. ^ Sill, Louise Morgan (December 1906). "The Clue". Harper's Monthly. 114 (679): 154 – via Internet Archive.
  20. ^ Sill, Louise Morgan (1907). "The Hoof-Beats of the Years". The North American Review. 184 (607): 186–187. ISSN 0029-2397.
  21. ^ Sill, Louise Morgan (1911). "The Gossip of an Ambassador". The North American Review. 194 (670): 452–465. ISSN 0029-2397.
  22. ^ Sill, Louise Morgan (1912). "Music". The North American Review. 195 (677): 544–545. ISSN 0029-2397.
  23. ^ Sill, Louise Morgan (1913). "The Cascade". The North American Review. 197 (688): 362–363. ISSN 0029-2397.
  24. ^ Claudel, Paul; Sill, Louise Morgan (1916). The tidings brought to Mary: a mystery. Yale University Press.
  25. ^ Bordeaux, Henry; Sill, Louise Morgan (Smith) (1918). Georges Guynemer, Knight of the Air. Yale University Press.
  26. ^ Des Granges, Charles Marc; Sill, Louise Morgan Smith (1921). An illustrated history of French literature. University of California Libraries. Paris : Hatier.
  27. ^ Sill, Louise Morgan (Smith) (1922). The life of lives; the story of Our Lord Jesus Christ for young people. New York: George H. Doran company.
  28. ^ Sill, Louise Morgan (1922). "A Garden... There". The North American Review. 215 (798): 642–642. ISSN 0029-2397.
  29. ^ Sill, Louise Morgan (February 11, 1925). "Time is Not". The Commonweal. 1: 382.
  30. ^ Sill, Louise Morgan (1926). "The Rearranged Luxembourg". The American Magazine of Art. 17 (6): 320–322. ISSN 2151-254X.
  31. ^ Sill, Louise Morgan (Smith) (1928). The hell-gods, and other poems. New York: Vinal.
  32. ^ Sill, Louise Morgan (1928). "Paris: Mother of Students". The American Magazine of Art. 19 (2): 87–91. ISSN 2151-254X.
  33. ^ Sill, Louise Morgan (1932). "Paris Notes". The American Magazine of Art. 24 (4): 309–310. ISSN 2151-254X.
  34. ^ "Mrs. Louise M. Sill; Editor, Author and Poet Dead in Florida at 93". The New York Times. April 1, 1961. p. 17. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-08-25.
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