Fannie Heaslip Lea
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Fannie Heaslip Lea was an American author and poet, best known for her poem "The Dead Faith".
She attended H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College
in New Orleans, where she received a B.A. in 1904, and did graduate work in English at Tulane University
in Louisiana for two years after.
Until her marriage in 1911, she wrote feature articles for New Orleans daily newspapers and short stories for magazines such as Harper's, a short story, Little Anna and the Gentleman Adventurer, in the 1910 The Century Magazine and Woman's Home Companion
.
Afterwards, she moved with her husband, Hamilton Pope Agee, to Honolulu. Her first novel, Quicksands, was published in this year. She continued to write through the birth of a daughter, Anne Worthen. She divorced Agee in 1926 and moved to New York, publishing 19 novels and more than 100 stories, poems, and essays in various newspapers and journals, until her death in 1955.
Lea also wrote several plays. Her first, Round-About, was produced in 1929 by the New York Theatre Assembly.
Her papers are housed in the University of Oregon Library in Eugene, Oregon
.
Biography
Fannie Heaslip Lea was the daughter of newspaperman James J. Lea.She attended H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College
H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College
H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College, or Newcomb College, was the coordinate women's college of Tulane University located in New Orleans, Louisiana. It was founded by Josephine Louise Newcomb in 1886 in memory of her daughter....
in New Orleans, where she received a B.A. in 1904, and did graduate work in English at Tulane University
Tulane University
Tulane University is a private, nonsectarian research university located in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States...
in Louisiana for two years after.
Until her marriage in 1911, she wrote feature articles for New Orleans daily newspapers and short stories for magazines such as Harper's, a short story, Little Anna and the Gentleman Adventurer, in the 1910 The Century Magazine and Woman's Home Companion
Woman's Home Companion
Woman's Home Companion was an American monthly publication, published from 1873 to 1957. It was highly successful, climbing to a circulation peak of more than four million during the 1930s and 1940s....
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Afterwards, she moved with her husband, Hamilton Pope Agee, to Honolulu. Her first novel, Quicksands, was published in this year. She continued to write through the birth of a daughter, Anne Worthen. She divorced Agee in 1926 and moved to New York, publishing 19 novels and more than 100 stories, poems, and essays in various newspapers and journals, until her death in 1955.
Lea also wrote several plays. Her first, Round-About, was produced in 1929 by the New York Theatre Assembly.
Her papers are housed in the University of Oregon Library in Eugene, Oregon
Eugene, Oregon
Eugene is the second largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon and the seat of Lane County. It is located at the south end of the Willamette Valley, at the confluence of the McKenzie and Willamette rivers, about east of the Oregon Coast.As of the 2010 U.S...
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