Emily Browne Powell
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1847
- teacher
- writer
- poetry
- short stories
- essays
- letters on the events of the day
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| Born | Emily Jeannette Browne 1847 Waldo County, Maine, U.S. |
| Died | September 25, 1938 (aged 90–91) Alameda, California, U.S. |
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J. H. Powell (m. 1872) |
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Emily Browne Powell (1847–1938) was an American writer. In 1892, she became the second president of the Pacific Coast Women's Press Association.[1]
Emily Jeannette Browne was born in 1847,[2] in Waldo County, Maine, of Puritans ancestry.[1] Her parents were Moses M Brown and Harriet A (Newell) Brown, and she had a sister, Elizabeth, who married George Emerson Brackett.[3]
Powell wrote her first poem at the age of twelve.[3] At the age of 16, she sent a poem to a Boston literary journal which brought her an invitation to become a regular contributor.[4]
Career
After several years of experience as a teacher in Belfast, Maine and elsewhere, Powell went to California in 1868, where she continued to work as a teacher.[3]
Powell's work consisted of poems, stories, essays, and letters on the events of the day and appeared in many magazines and newspapers,[4] including the Oakland Tribune, The San Francisco Call, Overland Monthly,[5] as well as Harper's Magazine,[6] The Californian,[7] Peterson's Magazine,[8] and New Peterson Magazine.[9] Her poems were widely copied throughout U.S. magazines.[1] She once received complimentary notice from Horace Greeley for a letter written to the New-York Tribune.[4]
The Pacific Coast Women's Press Association was organized in 1890 with about 200 women, and Powell was chosen to be the assistant recording secretary.[10] In September 1892, Powell succeeded Nellie Blessing Eyster to become the organization's second president.[11] She was a charter member of Oakland, California's Tea Club.[12]
