“Boys and Girls,” “Tales of the Trail,” “Friendly Rhymes,” “Voices of
Song,” “Letters of William Green,” and “Songs of Schooldays.” A Hymn
to Happiness; A Toast to Merriment; Days of Cheer; Friends of Mine;
One of These Days; Song of Endeavor; Undismayed.
FOSS, SAM WALTER. Born at Candia, N.H., June
19, 1858; died in 1911.
Graduated from Brown University 1882;
editor 1883-93; general writer
1893-8; librarian at Somerville, Mass.,
from 1898; lecturer and reader
of his own poems. Among his books
are “Back Country Poems,” “Whiffs
from Wild Meadows,” “Dreams
in Homespun,” “Songs of War and Peace,”
and “Songs of the Average Man.”
The Firm of Grin and Barrett, 118;
The House by the Side of the Road,
2.
FOWLER, ELLEN THORNEYCROFT (The Honorable Mrs. Alfred
Felkin). Elder
daughter of 1st Viscount Wolverhampton;
married to Alfred Laurence
Felkin 1903. Among her books are
“Verses Grave and Gay,” “Verses Wise
and Otherwise,” “Cupid’s
Garden,” “Concerning Isabel Carnaby,”
“A
Double Thread,” “The Farringdons,”
“Love’s Argument,” “Place and
Power,” “Miss Fallowfield’s
Fortune,” “The Wisdom of Folly,”
“Her
Ladyship’s Conscience,” and
“Ten Degrees Backward.” The Wisdom of
Folly, 61.
G
GARRISON, THEODOSIA. Born at Newark, N.J., 1874.
Educated at private
schools at Newark. Married Joseph
Garrison of Newark 1898; married
Frederick J. Faulks of Newark 1911.
Among her books are “The Joy of
Life, and Other Poems,” “Earth
Cry, and Other Poems,” and “The
Dreamers.” A Prayer, 156;
One Fight More, 145.
GATES, ELLEN M. HUNTINGTON. Born at Torrington,
Conn., 1834; died at
New York City, Oct. 12, 1920. Schooling
at Hamilton, N.Y. Among her
books are “Treasures of Kurium,”
“The Dark,” “To the Unborn Peoples,”
and “The Marble House.” The
Bars of Fate, 158; Your Mission, 120.
GILLILAN, STRICKLAND W. Born at Jackson, Ohio, Oct.
9, 1869. Attended
Ohio University to junior year; began
newspaper work on the Jackson,
Ohio, Herald 1887; and has since
been on the staffs of many
newspapers and magazines in various capacities.
Writer of humorous
verse, and popular lyceum lecturer.
Among his books are “Including
Finnigan,” “Including You
and Me,” and “A Sample Case of Humor.”
Keep
Sweet, 220.
GILMAN, CHARLOTTE PERKINS. Born at Hartford,
Conn., July 3, 1860.
Excellent home instruction; school attendance
scant; real education
reading and thinking, mainly in natural
science, history, and
sociology. Writer and lecturer on
humanitarian topics, especially
along lines of educational and legal advancement.
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