Florence Converse

Wellesley College Archives. Shakespeare Society members performing A Midsummer Night's Dream in the woods. Florence Converse, 1893 (Puck); Mabel Wells 1896 (Oberon); Caroline Newman, 1893 (Bottom), 1893

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

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 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 and they are buried alongside each other at Newton Cemetery, Newton, Massachusetts.^[1]

Bibliography

• Diana Victrix (1897)
• The Burden of Christopher (1900)
• Long Will, A Romance (1903)
• The House of Prayer (1908)
• A Masque of Sibyls (1910)
• The Children of Light (1912)
• The Story of Wellesley (1915)
• The Blessed Birthday (1917)
• Garments of Praise (1921)
• Thy Kingdom Come: A Dream for Easter Even (1921)
• Santa Conversazione: An All Saints Miracle (1921)
• The Holy night (1922)
• The Happy Swan (1925)
• Into the Void (1926)
• Sphinx (1931)
• Efficiency Expert (1934)
• Collected poems of Florence Converse (1937)
• The Madman and the Wrecking Crew (Crux Ave, Spes Unica) (1939)
• Wellesley College, a chronicle of the years 1875-1938 (1939)
• Prologue to Peace: the Poems of Two Wars (1949)

References

External links

• Works by Florence Converse at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Florence Converse at Internet Archive

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "^{article name needed}". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.