With its proximity to the cultural hub of New York City and its quieter suburban and rural landscapes, Connecticut was fertile ground for artists and writers in the period of Modernist movements between 1913 and 1979. Many of these cultural figures are well known through biographical and critical studies. Creative Places seeks to show how place played a significant role in creative work, and how in turn the artists and writers influenced communities in Connecticut.
Anna Hempstead Branch
Education/Curation, Poetry
1875 – 1937
Poet and author of ‘Sonnets from a Lock Box,’ a 1929 collection of verse cited for its directness, Branch was also a teacher and social activist.
- Biography/Description of Work
A graduate of Smith College in 1897, Branch studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Art, in New York City, in 1900. While at college she had begun writing poetry and the year after her graduation won the first prize offered by the Century Magazine for a poem written by a college graduate. She was active in philanthropy, in Christodora settlement house in New York, founding the Poets’ Guild and teaching there. She was born and died at Hempstead House.
- Sources view
- Lehman, Eric D. and Amy Nawrocki. 2014 Literary Connecticut. Charleston: The History Press. [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Hempstead_Branch ] [ http://www.poemhunter.com/anna-hempstead-branch/biography/ ] [ http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1601901 ] Joshua Hempstead House. [ http://focus.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/nrhp/text/70000701.PDF ]
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