Underwood, Edna (1873 - 1961)

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Edna Worthley Underwood was born in Phillips, ME and moved to Arkansas City KS in 1882 where she graduated from Arkansas City High School as valedictorian. She attended Garfield University in Wichita KS then the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI where she took her degree. She taught in Arkansas City schools then moved to NYC and began writing and translating works of poetry, prose and short stories.

Selected Bibliography

  • The Book of the White Peacocks (1915)
  • Three Chinese Masterpieces (translation) (1927)
  • Attic Twilights: [Poems] (1928)
  • The Book of Seven Songs (translation) (1928)
  • Egyptian Twilights: [Poem] (1928)
  • Masque of the Moons (1928)
  • Improvisations... (1929)
  • The Taste of Honey: The Note Book of a Linguist (1930)
  • Maine Summers: Sonnets to My Mother (1940)

Selected Resources