Mary Page Bird

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Mary Page Bird
BornJune 26, 1866 Edit this on Wikidata
Cobham Edit this on Wikidata
Died1924 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 57–58)
London Edit this on Wikidata
OccupationNovelist Edit this on Wikidata
Parent(s)
  • Carter Henry Page Edit this on Wikidata

Mary Bowdoin Page Bird (June 26, 1866 – 1924) was an American poet and novelist.

Mary Bowdoin Page was born on June 26, 1866 in Cobham, Albemarle County, Virginia. She was the daughter of Carter Henry Page and Leila Graham Page and a member of the prominent Page family.[1][2] In 1892, she married Gilbert Bonham Bird from Berwickshire.[3] They lived in England and later in North Carolina.[4]

She wrote poetry and particularly focused on the sonnet form. She had reportedly written a hundred sonnets by her early twenties. She published numerous poems in publications, including Lippincott's and Harper's.[4] In 1894, she published her first novel, Wedded to a Genius, under the pseudonym Neil Christison. It was about a woman, Judith, married to a doctor who emotionally abuses her.[5][6] She also serialized her work Sir Wilfred in the magazine Things and Thoughts.[2]

Mary Page Bird died in 1924 in London.[7]

Bibliography

  • Wedded to a Genius: A Novel.  2 vol.  London: Bentley, 1894.[8]

References

  1. ^ Page, Richard Channing Moore (1893). Genealogy of the Page Family in Virginia: Also, a Condensed Account of the Nelson, Walker, Pendleton, and Randolph Families, with References to the Bland, Burwell, Byrd, Carter, Cary, Duke, Gilmer, Harrison, Rives, Thornton, Welford, Washington, and Other Distinguished Families in Virginia. Publishers' Print. Company. p. 126.
  2. ^ a b Knight, Lucian Lamar (1978). Biographical dictionary of Southern authors. Internet Archive. Detroit : Gale Research Co. p. 36. ISBN 978-0-8103-4269-9.
  3. ^ Glenn, Thomas Allen (1898). Some Colonial Mansions: And Those who Lived in Them : with Genealogies of the Various Families Mentioned. H. T. Coates. p. 209.
  4. ^ a b The Writer. The Writer. 1901. pp. 9–10.
  5. ^ Grimes, Janet (1981). Novels in English by women, 1891-1920 : a preliminary checklist. Internet Archive. New York : Garland Pub. ISBN 978-0-8240-9522-2.
  6. ^ Daims, Diva (1982). Toward a feminist tradition : an annotated bibliography of novels in English by women, 1891-1920. Internet Archive. New York : Garland Pub. Co. ISBN 978-0-8240-9523-9.
  7. ^ "The Baltimore Sun 28 Oct 1924, page 5". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2023-01-17.
  8. ^ "Author: Mary Bowdoin Bird". At the Circulating Library A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901. Retrieved 2023-01-17.
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