Louise Morgan Smith Sill (December 18, 1867 – March 31, 1961) was an American poet, writer, translator, and editor.
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Born | Louise Morgan Smith December 18, 1867 Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands |
Died | March 31, 1961 (age 93) West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. |
Occupation(s) | Poet, writer, editor, translator |
Father | Morgan Lewis Smith |
Relatives | Giles Alexander Smith (uncle) |
Early life and education
editSmith 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
editSill 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
edit- "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
editSmith 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
edit- ^ a b "In the World of Letters; Well Known as a Magazine Poet". Book News Monthly. 24 (286): 713. June 1906.
- ^ a b c Leonard, John William, ed. Woman's who's who of America (1914): 746.
- ^ "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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b Sill, Louise Morgan (May 1899). "The 'Flying Dutchman'". The Century Magazine. 58 (1): 133.
- ^ a b Sill, Louise Morgan (November 1915). "The Old Woman". Scribner's Magazine. 58 (5): 587 – via Modernist Journals Project.
- ^ a b Sill, Louise Morgan (1918-05-01). "After Battle". The Atlantic. ISSN 2151-9463. Retrieved 2024-08-25.
- ^ "Books of All Sorts". Public Opinion. 40 (24): 736. June 16, 1906.
- ^ "Pioneer Players, The Tidings Brought To Mary". Evening Standard. 1917-06-11. p. 8. Retrieved 2024-08-25 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b Dimnet, Ernest; Sill, Louise Morgan (Smith) (1927). The Brontë sisters. Soeurs Brontë.English. London: Jonathan Cape.
- ^ Sill, Louise Morgan (1925). "Notes from Paris". The American Magazine of Art. 16 (10): 565–566. ISSN 2151-254X.
- ^ Sill, Louise Morgan (1927). "Paris Notes". The American Magazine of Art. 18 (8): 452–454. ISSN 2151-254X.
- ^ Sill, Louise Morgan (1929). "Paris Notes". The American Magazine of Art. 20 (1): 57–59. ISSN 2151-254X.
- ^ Sill, Louise Morgan (August 1899). "Man and Woman". The Century Magazine. 58 (4): 638.
- ^ Sill, Louise Morgan (May 4, 1901). "The Canyon of the Colorado". Harper's Weekly. 45 (2315): 465 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Sill, Louise Morgan (1903). "Out of the Shadow". The North American Review. 176 (555): 254–256. ISSN 0029-2397.
- ^ Sill, Louise Morgan. (1906). In sun or shade, poems. New York London: Harper & brothers.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Sill, Louise Morgan (December 1906). "The Clue". Harper's Monthly. 114 (679): 154 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Sill, Louise Morgan (1907). "The Hoof-Beats of the Years". The North American Review. 184 (607): 186–187. ISSN 0029-2397.
- ^ Sill, Louise Morgan (1911). "The Gossip of an Ambassador". The North American Review. 194 (670): 452–465. ISSN 0029-2397.
- ^ Sill, Louise Morgan (1912). "Music". The North American Review. 195 (677): 544–545. ISSN 0029-2397.
- ^ Sill, Louise Morgan (1913). "The Cascade". The North American Review. 197 (688): 362–363. ISSN 0029-2397.
- ^ Claudel, Paul; Sill, Louise Morgan (1916). The tidings brought to Mary: a mystery. Yale University Press.
- ^ Bordeaux, Henry; Sill, Louise Morgan (Smith) (1918). Georges Guynemer, Knight of the Air. Yale University Press.
- ^ Des Granges, Charles Marc; Sill, Louise Morgan Smith (1921). An illustrated history of French literature. University of California Libraries. Paris : Hatier.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Sill, Louise Morgan (1922). "A Garden... There". The North American Review. 215 (798): 642–642. ISSN 0029-2397.
- ^ Sill, Louise Morgan (February 11, 1925). "Time is Not". The Commonweal. 1: 382.
- ^ Sill, Louise Morgan (1926). "The Rearranged Luxembourg". The American Magazine of Art. 17 (6): 320–322. ISSN 2151-254X.
- ^ Sill, Louise Morgan (Smith) (1928). The hell-gods, and other poems. New York: Vinal.
- ^ Sill, Louise Morgan (1928). "Paris: Mother of Students". The American Magazine of Art. 19 (2): 87–91. ISSN 2151-254X.
- ^ Sill, Louise Morgan (1932). "Paris Notes". The American Magazine of Art. 24 (4): 309–310. ISSN 2151-254X.
- ^ "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.
External links
edit- Correspondence between Louise Morgan Sill and Hamlin Garland, letters dated January 26, 1903 and February 24, 1904, in the University of Southern California Digital Library