Kansas Women in Literature by Nettie Garmer Barker
page 37 of 46 (80%)
page 37 of 46 (80%)
![]() | ![]() |
|
Friends,'' ``Esther, The Gentile,'' and many
short stories and poems. Her classic prose- poem: ``In The Missouri Woods'' is considered her masterpiece. Mrs. Sara Josephine Albright, formerly of Topeka, now of Leavenworth, is a sweet singer of childlife. Her volume of verse, ``With The Children'' is lullabies and mother-love poems. A book of stories for children will soon be ready for publication. Jessie Lewellyn Call, deceased, the clever and beautiful daughter of the first Populist governor of Kansas, was a well-known essayist and short story writer. For many years she was one of the editors of the Chicago Inter-Ocean. Lawrence claims Dorothy Canfield Fisher, a writer of both fiction and text-books and many short stories. She is the author of ``Corneille And Racine In England,'' ``English Rhetoric And Composition,'' ``What Shall We Do Now,'' ``Gunhild,'' ``The Squirrel Cage'' and ``The Montessori Mother.'' Louise C. Don Carlos has written ``A Battle In The Smoke,'' one of the best Kansas works on fiction. She did special work on the Nashville Tennessee Banner and writes a great deal of magazine verse. Mrs. Anna W. Arnett, a Lawrence teacher, writes verse and songs. In addition, she has |
|