Margarite Frances Baird
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Margarite Frances Baird was also known as Peggy Baird, Peggy Johns and Peggy Cowley. She was a landscape painter, but was most significant for her participation in the literary and artistic life of her day. She was married to Orrick Johns about 1915, traveled with him to Europe[1]. During this period, she had a "fling" with Eugene O'Neill[2]
Peggy Baird Johns was a friend and correspondent of Katherine Anne Porter and Dorothy Day.
Baird was part of the women's suffrage movement. In 1917, she invited Dorothy Day to join the National Woman's Party[3]. They were jailed for their protests. She remained friends with Day and visited her at various times throughout the years.
She later married Malcolm Cowley and was divorced from him in 1931.
She was Hart Crane's only heterosexual lover and was with him on the boat when he committed suicide.[4] Crane's last poem, The Broken Tower was written about her. In 1960, she wrote an article, The Last Days of Hart Crane for Venture[5].
[edit] References
- ^ Johns, Orrick (1937). Time of Our Lives. New York: Stackpole.
- ^ Black, Stephen A. (2002). Eugene O'Neill: Beyond Mourning and Tragedy. Yale University press. ISBN, p. 201. ISBN 0300093993.
- ^ Klejment, Anne; Roberts, Nancy L. (1996). American Catholic Pacifism. Greenwood Publishing Group, pp. 21-22. ISBN 027594784X.
- ^ Newman, Karen; Clayton, Jay;Hirsch, Marianne (2002). Time and the Literary. Routledge, p. 241. ISBN 0415939607.
- ^ Vol 4., No. 1, 1961
