Grace Walcott Hazard Conkling (February 7, 1878 – November 15, 1958) was an American author, a poet and an English professor.

Background

Grace Walcott Hazard was born in

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on February 7, 1878. She earned a bachelor of letters degree at

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and then taught at the Graham School in New York. Hazard moved to France to study music, but she became ill and returned to the United States. In 1905, Hazard married Roscoe Platt Conkling, and they lived on a ranch in Mexico. Conkling had two daughters, Hilda and Elsa. She died at the age of 80 on November 15, 1958.

Career

In 1914, Hazard taught

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where she remained till she retired in 1947. Conkling attracted wide attention as the teacher of her little daughter,

Hilda Conkling Hilda Conkling (1910–1986) was an American poet. She was the daughter of Grace Hazard Conkling, a poet in her own right and Assistant Professor of English at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. Hilda was born in New York state. Her ...

, whose ''Poems by a Little Girl'' (1920) displayed great ability at an early age. Grace copied down her daughter's poems as they were spoken, which is the only record that exists of Hilda's work.Sapir, Edward, Conkling, Grace Hazard, and Driscoll, Louise (1919)
"Concerning Hilda Conkling."
The Poetry Foundation

Writings

Her collected volumes of

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include: * ''Afternoons of April'' (1915) * ''Wilderness Songs'' (1920) * ''Flying Fish: A Book of Songs and Sonnets'' (1926) * ''Witch and Other Poems'' (1929)

References

External links

Grace Hazard Conkling papers
at the

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, Smith College Special Collections * * * * American women poets Writers from New York City Smith College alumni 1878 births 1958 deaths MacDowell Colony fellows 20th-century American poets 20th-century American women writers {{US-poet-1870s-stub