Florence Converse

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Florence Converse (April 30, 1871 – February 13, 1967) was an American author. Throughout her career, she wrote a variety of pieces spanning many genres, including historical novels, mysteries, religious plays, and poetry. Converse had a Boston marriage with Vida Dutton Scudder.

Early life and education

Florence Converse was born in New Orleans in 1871. She attended Mrs. Charles's School in New Orleans,[1] and graduated from Wellesley College in 1893, and completed a master's degree at Wellesley in 1903.[2]

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Wellesley College Archives. Shakespeare Society members performing A Midsummer Night's Dream in the woods. Florence Converse, 1893 (Puck); Mabel Wells 1896 (Oberon); Caroline Newman, 1893 (Bottom), 1893

Career

Converse gave a series of lectures on Percy Bysshe Shelley in New Orleans in 1896.[3] She taught English at Wellesley after graduating from the college,[4] and lived in Denison House, a Boston settlement house.[5] She was a member of the editorial staff of The Churchman from 1900 to 1908, when she joined the staff of the Atlantic Monthly.[2][6]

Converse wrote plays, poems, and several novels. These included Long Will, a novel about the Peasants' Revolt of 1381.[7] She also edited children's books at E. P. Dutton.[8] "Miss Converse is doubtless one of the most interesting of the minor poets," wrote a reviewer in 1937.[9]

Personal life and legacy

Converse was in a lesbian relationship known as a Boston marriage with Vida Dutton Scudder.[10][11] The couple lived together from 1912 until Scudder died in 1954.[12] Converse died in 1967, at the age of 95. Scudder and Converse are buried alongside each other at Newton Cemetery, Newton, Massachusetts.[13]

Publications

Converse wrote in various genres, including historical novels, mysteries, religious plays, and poetry. She also translated works from French, including Birds of a Feather (1919) by Marcel Nadaud.[14]

  • Diana Victrix (1897)[10][15]
  • The Burden of Christopher (1900)[16]
  • Long Will, A Romance (1903)[17]
  • The House of Prayer (1908)
  • A Masque of Sibyls (1910)[18]
  • The Children of Light (1912)[19]
  • The Story of Wellesley (1915)[20]
  • The Blessed Birthday (1917)[21]
  • Garments of Praise (1921)[22]
  • The Holy Night (1922)[23]
  • The Happy Swan (1925)
  • Into the Void (1926)[24]
  • Sphinx (1931)[25][26]
  • Efficiency Expert (1934)[27]
  • Collected poems of Florence Converse (1937)[28]
  • The Madman and the Wrecking Crew (Crux Ave, Spes Unica) (1939)
  • Wellesley College, a chronicle of the years 1875-1938 (1939)
  • Prologue to Peace: the Poems of Two Wars (1949)
  • "Pasquale's Easter Moon" (1956)[29]

References

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