Zadel Barnes Gustafson
Zadel Barnes Buddington Gustafson (1841–1917) was an American author, poet and journalist. [1]
Biography
Zadel Barnes was born in Middletown, Connecticut. She was the daughter of Duane Barnes and Cynthia Turner.[2][3] Early in her life, she began writing verses, stories and sketches. A paper by her in favor of the abolition of capital punishment attracted general attention.[3]
She contribute articles and fictional pieces to leading publications including the Pall Mall Gazette, Leslie's Weekly, and Harper's Monthly Magazine. For two years she was political editor of the Springfield Republican in Springfield, Massachusetts. She wrote a tribute to the poet William Cullen Bryant of which John Greenleaf Whittier wrote: I can only compare it with Milton's Lycidas; it is worthy of any living poet at least. Her poem Little Martin Craghan, based on the true story of a twelve-year-old boy whose heroism cost him his life in the mines of Pittston, Pennsylvania, became very popular.[3]
She married Henry Budington (1831-1920) when she was 16 in 1857. They were divorced around 1879. She later married Axel Carl Johan Gustafson.[2] Her published works appeared under the name Zadel Turner Barnes as well as Z. B. Budington and Z. B. Gustafson. She was the grandmother of Djuna Barnes.[2][4]
Publications
- Can the Old Love? (Boston, 1871)
- Meg, A Pastoral, and other Poems (Boston, 1879)
- Genevieve Ward; a Biographic Sketch (Boston, 1882)
She edited:
- Zophiel by Maria Gowen Brooks, with a sketch of the author (Boston, 1879)
References
- ↑ "Historical Note - Zadel Barnes (1841-1917)". University of Maryland Libraries. Retrieved December 5, 2015.
- 1 2 3 Herring, Phillip (September 22, 1993). "Zadel Barnes: journalist". The Review of Contemporary Fiction. HighBeam Research. Retrieved 2012-01-16.
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John, eds. (1892). "Gustafson, Axel Carl Johan". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton. - ↑ Bonnie Kime Scott (1996) Refiguring Modernism, Volume 1: Women of 1928 (Indiana University Press. Pages 14-20) ISBN 9780253115485