Marian Adele Longfellow O'Donoghue (April 1, 1849 – January 23, 1924) was an American writer, one of the founders of the

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, in 1897.

Early life

Marian Adele Longfellow was born in

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, the daughter of Stephen Longfellow and Marianne Preble Longfellow. Poet

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was her uncle. Her grandfather,

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, was a judge and diplomat.

Career

Marian Longfellow O'Donoghue wrote poetry and stories for newspapers, collected for publication as ''Seven Stories of Christmas'' (1884), ''The Lily of the Resurrection'' (1885), ''Snow Crystals'' (1885), and ''Contrasted Songs'' (1904). She sometimes used the pen named "Miriam Lester." Longfellow also translated

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's ''A Romance of the West Indies'' from French (1898). Some of her poems were set to music as Christian hymns. She was a charter member of the

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, a charter member of the National Society of New England Women, and served on the board of directors of the Washington Choral Society."Mrs. O'Donoghue's Literary Fame"
''The Times'' (March 6, 1898): 28. via

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In 1897, after being rejected for membership in the Washington Press Club, she, Margaret Sullivan Burke, and Anna Sanborn Hamilton founded the

. O'Donoghue wrote the organization's bylaws and constitution. She was the only woman elected to the executive committee of the International League of Press Clubs in 1898. She was a "prominent member" of the California State Association in Washington D. C. while her husband was serving as president of that organization in 1906.

Personal life

Marian Longfellow married twice: first to Englishman William Morris, with whom she had three children. They divorced. Her second marriage was to Michael Francis O'Donoghue, an Irishman and fellow writer. She was widowed when he died in 1921. Marian Longfellow died in 1924, aged 74 years, in Shawmut,

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, where she was living with her son Henry Wadsworth Morris."Longfellow's Niece Dies in Mine Town"
''Oakland Tribune'' (January 23, 1924): 4. via

References

External links

A picture of Marian Longfellow as a child, circa 1851
in the collection of the Maine Historical Society. *
Sheet music for Longfellow's "The Eagle and the Dove a Call to Arms"
a song she wrote during World War I, in the collection of the Library of Congress. * {{DEFAULTSORT:Longfellow O'Donoghue, Marian 1849 births 1924 deaths Writers from Portland, Maine Journalists from Maine American women journalists