Edith Roelker Curtis Papers
1947-1977
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Biographical Note
Edith Roelker Curtis (1893-1977) studied at Radcliffe from 1919-21. She married Charles P. Curtis in 1914. They divorced in 1934. She was a Red Cross assistant in Gloucester, Massachusetts during World War I. Edith published numerous articles and poems in national magazines from the 1930s-70s. Her major books include Anne Hutchinson: A Biography (1930); Lady Sarah Lennox (1946); Love's Random Dart (1962); Mexican Romance (1969); A Season in Utopia, and The Story of Brook Farm (1961). She was president of the Boston Branch, then Massachusetts Branch, of the National League American Pen Women. She was a member of the Author's Guild. Her unpublished works include "Civil War at Sea" and a biography of confederate naval officer Josiah Tattnall. In the early 1970s, she promoted the designation of Brook Farm in Roxbury, Massachusetts as a park and National Historical Landmark. |