Eunice Tietjens — a remark

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“And will you remember that my only unfulfilled longing is to have the lead in Poetry?”

A candid expression of literary ambition from an editor who was also determined to be recognised as a poet · Letter to Harriet Monroe, 29 May 1924

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Eunice Tietjens

29 July 1884–6 September 1944

Eunice Tietjens was born in Chicago, Illinois, on 29 July 1884, into a city whose energy, contradictions, and cultural ambitions would shape the rest of her life. She died in the same city on 6 September 1944, after a career that had carried her across the United States, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. During those…

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