Danske Dandridge | |
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| Born | Caroline "Danske" Bedinger November 19, 1854 Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Died | June 4, 1914 (aged 59) Shepherdstown, West Virginia, U.S. |
| Occupation | poet, historian, garden writer |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse |
Adam Stephen Dandridge, Jr.
(m. 1877) |
| Children | 3, including Violet Dandridge |
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Danske Dandridge (November 19, 1854 – June 3, 1914) was a Danish-born American poet, historian, and garden writer. Along with her contemporaries, Waitman T. Barbe and Thomas Dunn English, Dandridge was considered a major poet of late 19th-century West Virginia.[1]
By marriage, Dandridge secured not only the sympathy, encouragement and criticism she needed, but alliteration of name. She had scribbled verses since she was a child of eight. But the morbid, sensitive child had not attempted ambitious verse, nor did she as a grown woman till she had been married some years.[2] Her works were Joy and Other Poems, Twilight in the Woods, The Lover in the Woods, Rose Brake, and miscellaneous contributions to the periodicals.[3]
- ^ Rice 2010.
- ^ Moulton 1889, p. 180.
- ^ Rutherford 1894, p. 680.