Marion Juliet Mitchell

Marion Juliet Mitchell (September 4, 1836 – January 30, 1917) was an American poet and educator. She received a thorough education, and inherited literary tastes from her parents. She contributed extensively both prose and verse to magazines and was the author of a volume of poems. Her poems appeared in several standard collections.[1]

Marion Juliet Mitchell
"A woman of the century"
Born	September 4, 1836 Buffalo, New York, U.S.
Died	January 30, 1917(1917-01-30) (aged 80) Janesville, Wisconsin
Resting place	Oak Hill Cemetery, Janesville
Occupation	poet
Language	English
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Ingham Collegiate Institute

Early years and education

Marion Juliet Mitchell was born in Buffalo, New York, September 4, 1836. Her father, Dr. John Mitchell, died in 1885), and her mother died in 1888. She went with her parents to Wisconsin, and the family settled in Janesville, Wisconsin, which was then a small village. One of the best of her earlier poems, "My Grandmother's Home," is a memorial of several happy years which she passed in childhood with her grandparents, Hon. Isaac Lacey and wife, near Rochester, New York. She attended school in Rochester, and went afterwards to the Ingham Collegiate Institute (later named Ingham University), in Le Roy, New York. She finished with a thorough course in Frances Willard's seminary, in Troy, New York.[2]

Career

Mitchell inherited literary tastes from her parents. Most of her poetic work shows matured powers of imagination and expression. Quiet and domestic in her tastes, she cared little for what was generally termed society. She was surrounded by a circle of congenial friends, and her life was passed in good works and the reading of literature.[2] The Mitchell Book of Poems was brought out by Mitchell and her father.[3] She died January 30, 1917 in Janesville, Wisconsin, and was buried in that city's Oak Hill Cemetery.

References

1. Herringshaw 1914, p. 200.
2. Willard & Livermore 1893, p. 510.
3. State Medical Society of Wisconsin 1886, p. 226.

Attribution

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herringshaw, Thomas William (1914). Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States; Illustrated with Three Thousand Vignette Portraits ... American publishers' association.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: State Medical Society of Wisconsin (1886). Transactions of the State Medical Society of Wisconsin for the Year ... 20-22 (Public domain ed.).CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life (Public domain ed.). Moulton. p. 510.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

External links

• Works by or about Marion Juliet Mitchell at Internet Archive
• Marion Juliet Mitchell's poetry at The Magazine of Poetry and Literary Review
• Marion Juliet Mitchell's poetry at The Poetical Works
• Marion Juliet Mitchell's poetry at Under Both Flags: A Panorama of the Great Civil War as Represented in Story