Marion Juliet Mitchell

Marion Juliet Mitchell
"A woman of the century"
Born September 4, 1836
Buffalo, New York, U.S.
Died January 30, 1917(1917-01-30) (aged 80)
Janesville U.S.
Resting place Oak Hill Cemetery, Janesville
Occupation poet
Language English
Nationality American
Alma mater Ingham Collegiate Institute

Marion Juliet Mitchell (September 4, 1836 – January 30, 1917) was an American poet.

Early years and education

Marion Juliet Mitchell was born in Buffalo, New York, September 4, 1836. Her father, Dr. John Mitchell, died in 1885), and her mother died in 1888. She went with her parents to Wisconsin, and the family settled in Janesville, which was then a small village. One of the best of her earlier poems, "My Grandmother's Home," is a memorial of several happy years which she passed in childhood with her grandparents, Hon. Isaac Lacey and wife, near Rochester, New York. She attended school in Rochester, and went afterwards to the Ingham Collegiate Institute (later named Ingham University), in Le Roy, New York. She finished with a thorough course in Frances Willard's seminary, in Troy, New York.[1]

Career

Mitchell inherited literary tastes from her parents. Most of her poetic work shows matured powers of imagination and expression. Quiet and domestic in her tastes, she cared little for what was generally termed society. She was surrounded by a circle of congenial friends, and her life was passed in good works and the reading of literature.[1] The Mitchell Book of Poems was brought out by Mitchell and her father.[2] She died January 30, 1917 in Janesville, and was buried in that city's Oak Hill Cemetery.

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Attribution

  • This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: State Medical Society of Wisconsin (1886). Transactions of the State Medical Society of Wisconsin for the Year ... 20-22 (Public domain ed.).
  • This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life (Public domain ed.). Moulton.
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