“Oh, why was I born with a thousand wings of the spirit and a ball and chain on every hand and foot of me?”
About Josephine Preston Peabody
30 May 1874–4 December 1922
Josephine Preston Peabody, later Josephine Preston Peabody Marks, was born in New York City on 30 May 1874 and died on 4 December 1922. During her comparatively short life she became one of the most admired American poets and verse dramatists of the early twentieth century. She was praised for a voice at once musical…