Leonora Speyer
| Leonora Speyer | |
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Lady Speyer by John Singer Sargent, 1907
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| Born | 7 November 1872[1] Washington, D.C. |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist.[2] New York |
| Nationality | American/British |
| Occupation | Violinist Poet |
| Spouse(s) | Louis Meredith Howland (m. 1894–1902) Sir Edgar Speyer (m. 1902; d. 1932) |
| Children | 4 |
Leonora Speyer, Lady Speyer (née von Stosch) (7 November 1872 – 10 February 1956) was an American poet and violinist.
Life
She was born in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Count Ferdinand von Stosch of Mantze in Silesia, who fought for the Union, and Julia Schayer, who was a writer.
She studied music in Brussels, Paris, and Leipzig, and played the violin professionally under the batons of Arthur Nikisch and Anton Seidl, among others. She first married Louis Meredith Howland in 1894,[3] but they divorced in Paris in 1902.[4] She then married banker Edgar Speyer (later Sir Edgar), of London, where the couple lived until 1915.[5]
Sir Edgar had German ancestry and following anti-German attacks on him that year,[5] they moved to the United States and took up residence in New York, where Speyer began writing poetry. She won the 1927 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her book of poetry Fiddler's Farewell.[6]
She had four daughters: Enid Howland with her first husband and Pamela, Leonora, and Vivien Claire Speyer with her second husband.[4][5]
Awards
Selected works
- "April on the Battlefields", The Second Book of Modern Verse (1919). about.com
- "A Note from the Pipes", The Second Book of Modern Verse (1919). about.com
- "Suddenly", Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1920, Bartleby.com
- "Song", Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1920, Bartleby.com
- "Measure Me Sky", "The Pet" The Bookman Anthology at the Wayback Machine (archived October 28, 2009)
- American Poets, An Anthology Of Contemporary Verse (1923)
- Fiddler's Farewell (1926)
- Slow Wall; poems, new and selected (1939)
- Slow wall; poems, together with Nor without music (1944)
Translation
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Notes
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External links
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- Works by Leonora Speyer at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Articles with hCards
- Articles with Internet Archive links
- 1872 births
- 1956 deaths
- Musicians from Washington, D.C.
- American women poets
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winners
- American classical violinists
- Women violinists
- Poets from Washington, D.C.
- American people of Silesian descent
- 20th-century American poets
- 20th-century American musicians
- 20th-century violinists
- 20th-century classical musicians
- 20th-century women writers
