Josephine Preston Peabody

Josephine Preston Peabody (May 30, 1874 – December 4, 1922) was an American poet and dramatist.

Peabody was born in New York and educated at the Girls' Latin School, Boston, and at Radcliffe College.

[1][2] In 1898, she was introduced to fifteen-year-old Khalil Gibran by Fred Holland Day, the American photographer and co-founder of the Copeland-Day publishing house, at an art exhibition.

The Stratford-on-Avon prize went to her in 1909 for her drama The Piper, which was produced in England in 1910; and in America at the New Theatre, New York City, in 1911.

[4][5] On June 21, 1906 she married Lionel Simeon Marks, a British engineer and professor at Harvard University.

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"The Journey": illustration by Elizabeth Shippen Green for a series of poems by Josephine Preston Peabody, entitled "The Little Past", which relate experiences of childhood from a child's perspective. Poems and illustration were published in Harper's Magazine , December 1903.