Genevieve Taggard — a remark

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“Am I the Christian gentlewoman my mother slaved to make me? No indeed. I am a poet, a wine-bibber, a radical; a non-churchgoer who will no longer sing in the choir or lead prayer-meeting with a testimonial.”

Rejecting inherited gentility in favour of an independent artistic life · Autobiographical essay, Poet Out of Pioneer (1927)

About Genevieve Taggard

Genevieve Taggard

28 November 1894–8 November 1948

Genevieve Taggard was born on November 28, 1894, in the small farming community of Waitsburg, Washington, a place of dust-choked fields and modest wooden houses that would later stand in stark contrast to the lush paradise of her childhood memories. She died on November 8, 1948, in a New York City hospital, just shy…

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