Sallie Bridges
American poet (1830–1910)
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Sarah Bridges Stebbins, a Philadelphian better known under the pen name Sallie Bridges[1] (1830-1910), was an American poet, best known today for her adaptations of Arthurian legend.[2]
Writing career
Bridges's Marble Isle (1864)[3] is a collection of poetic adaptations from Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur. According to Daniel Helbert, she is the first American writer "to truly adapt and interpret Malory's text as a comprehensive literary enterprise".[1]
Annals of a Baby, was first published anonymously in 1877 and was written by John Habberton. (See: John Habberton) It is a humorous look at motherhood and family life; it tells of the birth and growth of a nameless baby in a world of stock characters--the Young Mother, the Young Aunties, the Fat Nurse, etc. The book was published in the "Helen's Babies" series.[4] (This paragraph should be stricken from this report on Sallie Bridges Stebbins.)
Bibliography
Poetry
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, ed. (1879). "Santa Cruz". Poems of Places: America. J. R. Osgood. pp. 264–65.
- "What Are the Wild Waves Saying?, Out Of the Shell". Arthur's Home Magazine. 50: 302, 337. 1882.
- "A Child's Mission". Demorest's Family Magazine. 21: 356. 1885.
- Stebbins, Sallie Bridges (1893). "Barye". Modern Art. 1 (4). doi:10.2307/25609823. JSTOR 25609823.