42. Sabella Gardner, 1915-1981. American Author
Starbuck, George, 1931 . American author Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955. American author Stoloff, Carolyn, 1927- . American author Strand, Mark, 1934- .
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My Library Accounts Interlibrary Loan ... WUSTL Isabella Gardner, 1915-1981. American author Links Finding-Aid for the Gardner Papers [00050] Collection Description Papers, ca. 1923-1968. ca. 8000 items Access: Open Isabella Stewart Gardner, born in 1915 into a prominent Boston family, was the niece and namesake of the important art collector Isabella Stewart Gardner and a cousin of the poet Robert Lowell. She attended Foxcroft School in Virginia and the Embassy Theatre School in London where she studied acting under Eileen Thorndike. Garnder acted professionally from 1939 to 1944 in both England and the United States, primarily in character and comedy roles, and her Papers include some memorabilia photographs, scrapbooks, program, etc. relating to her acting career. During World War II, Gardner moved to Chicago with her second husband, Maurice Seymour. There she turned her attention away from the theatre and towards poetry. Gardner had been writing since her days at Foxcroft School and her first poems, in fact, were printed in that school's yearbook, Tally Ho . In 1951 Gardner joined the staff of Poetry magazine as an associate editor, working under Karl Shapiro. Garner was introduced to the important group of poets then emerging in Chicago which included Shapiro, John Logan, Reuel Denney, Wallace Fowlie, and, later Paul Carroll and Galway Kinnell. As an associate editor of the nation's most prominent poetry magazine, she also became a familiar of most of the poets then writing in the United States and England. Gardner's first book of poems | |
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