Edith M. Thomas — a remark

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“Great are my riches.”

Her delighted response to receiving a large gift of books, revealing how readily she measured wealth in reading · Letter to an Oberlin friend, 1874

About Edith M. Thomas

Edith M. Thomas

12 August 1854–13 September 1925

Edith Matilda Thomas was born on 12 August 1854 in Chatham, Ohio, and died on 13 September 1925 in New York City. During her lifetime she was admired as one of the most accomplished American lyric poets of the late nineteenth century, praised by editors, fellow writers, and readers for verse that joined close…

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