Florence Converse

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Florence Converse (1871 - 1967) was an American author.

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[edit] Biography

Florence Converse was born in New Orleans in 1871.

She graduated from Wellesley College in 1893 and was a member of the editorial staff of the Churchman from 1900 to 1908, when she joined the staff of the Atlantic Monthly.

She was in a lesbian relationship with Vida Dutton Scudder[1].

[edit] Bibliography

  • Diana Victrix (1897)
  • The Burden of Christopher (1900)
  • Long Will, A Romance (1903)
  • Everyman's Library (1908)
  • The House of Prayer (1908)
  • A Masque of Sibyls (1910)
  • The Children of Light (1912)

[edit] References

  1. ^ Lillian Faderman, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America, Penguin Books Ltd, 1991, pages 23-24. ISBN 0231074883

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