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Anne Bethel Spencer (born Bannister; February 6, 1882 – July 27, 1975) was an American poet, teacher, civil rights activist, librarian, and gardener.She was a prominent figure of the Harlem Renaissance, also known as the New Negro Movement, despite living in Virginia for most of her life, far from the center of the movement in New York.
The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural revival of African American life centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s and 1930s. A major aspect of this revival was poetry. [2] Hundreds of poems were written and published by African Americans during the era, which covered a wide variety of themes. [3]
The Pierce Street House was built in 1903, by Edward Spencer and the surrounding area includes a large garden and a one-room retreat called Edankraal, where Spencer did much of her writing. The word "Edankraal" is a combination of "Edward," "Anne," and "kraal," the Afrikaans word for enclosure or corral.
Anne Spencer (1882–1975), American poet; Elkanah East Taylor (1888–1945), American poet; poetry magazine founder; Sara Teasdale (1884–1933), American lyrical poet; Regina Ullmann (1884–1961), Swiss poet writing in German; Dorothy Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington (1889–1956), English poet
Anne Morrow and her parents with Charles Lindbergh. Elizabeth Reeve Cutter, called Betty, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to Charles Cutter and Annie Spencer Cutter. [4] Besides her twin sister Mary, Betty had three younger sisters. [5] The Cutters lived in Cleveland with their extended family before moving in 1888 to a home Charles built nearby. [6]
Anne Spencer Lindbergh (October 2, 1940 – December 10, 1993) [1] was an American writer, primarily of children's novels. [2] She was the daughter of aviators/authors Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh .
Anne Spencer was pronounced dead at 9.55pm. Ms Clarke confirmed Mrs Spencer’s medical cause of death as aspiration pneumonia, hypoxic-ischaemic brain injury and near drowning.
Men in the Off Hours is a hybrid collection of short poems, verse essays, epitaphs, commemorative prose, interviews, scripts, and translations from ancient Greek and Latin (of Alcaeus, Alcman, Catullus, Hesiod, Sappho and others). [1] The book broke with Carson's established pattern of writing long poems. [2]