Sarah morgan bryan piatt biography
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Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt
American poet (–)
Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt | |
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"A woman of the century" | |
| Born | Sarah Morgan Bryan August 11, Lexington, Kentucky, U.S. |
| Died | December 22, () (aged&#;83) Caldwell, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Resting place | Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma&#;mater | Henry Female College |
| Notable works | A Woman's Poems |
| Partner | John James Piatt &#; &#; (m.&#;; died&#;)&#; |
| Children | 7 |
Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (Sallie M. Bryan; August 11, – December 22, ) was an American poet. Her career began in the mids and lasted into the early twentieth century. She published hundreds of poems in nationally circulated newspapers, magazines, and anthologies as well as in eighteen volumes of poems, two of which she co-authored with her husband, the poet John James Piatt (also known as "J.J.").[2] Although Sarah Piatt is not well known
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Sarah M. B. Piatt (), American poet.
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Correspondence, literary notes, clippings, photographs, and an album of poems and drawings on Edinburgh compiled () bygd Cecil Piatt. The correspondence consists mainly of letters to John Bear Piatt from family members on the frontier in Montana, Dakota territory, and Kansas. There are also letters from his son, John James Piatt, who served as the United States Consul in Cork, Ireland, from , and from Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt, noted nineteenth century poet and author.
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Piatt, Sarah Morgan Bryan
Biography
On August 11, , Sarah Morgan Bryan was born in Lexington, Kentucky, the daughter of Southern gentry. After her mother's death in , she lived with different family members before entering Henry Female College in a four-year general degree program in She married a young poet, John James Piatt, on June 18, , and followed him to Washington and eventually over to Ireland in his lifelong career in the US civil service. They had seven children. Sarah began publishing poems in They appeared in Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Scribner's, and many other journals, and she brought out more than sixteen volumes of verse. Sarah knew most contemporary American and Irish poets, including Longfellow, Whitman, and W. B. Yeats. She died in Caldwell, New Jersey, in , two years after the death of her husband.
- Piatt, Sarah Morgan Bryan. The Nests at Washington and Other Poems. New York and London: Samson Low and Son,
- A Woman's Poems. B