Anna Olcott Commelin
{{short description|American poet}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Anna Olcott Commelin
| image = Anna Olcott Commelin.png
| birth_date = {{Birth-date|1841}}
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1924|07|01|1841||}}
| nationality = American
| occupation = Writer, poet
| known_for = Articles and poetry}}
Anna Olcott Commelin (1841 – July 1, 1924){{cite web |url=https://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=rad1003&id=I33124 |title=Ancestors of the Hudson Valley: Links to the Past |website=RootsWeb |access-date=October 5, 2019}}{{cite news |date=July 22, 1924 |title=Anna Olcott Commelin Will Filed For Probate |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/36742058/the_brooklyn_daily_eagle/ |work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle |location=Brooklyn, New York |access-date=October 5, 2019 |via=Newspapers.com}} was an American writer and poet.
Early life and career
Commelin was born in Brooklyn, New York, where she also attended the Brooklyn Heights Seminary. She wrote poems for Index, the Open Court, the Christian Register, and the magazine Woman. Commelin published a small collection of her poems in 1889.{{cite book|title=The Magazine of Poetry|url=https://archive.org/details/magazinepoetry02moulgoog|year=1890|publisher=Charles Wells Moulton|page=[https://archive.org/details/magazinepoetry02moulgoog/page/n211 185]}} In 1913, she wrote an article for The Brooklyn Daily Eagle about the rights of women.{{cite news |last=Commelin |first=Anna Olcott |date=July 10, 1913 |title=Just As Many Good Men As Women |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/36742116/the_brooklyn_daily_eagle/ |work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle |location=Brooklyn, New York |access-date=October 5, 2019 |via=Newspapers.com}}
She wrote the story Not In It which is about her belief that the rich should help the poor.{{cite book|title=Popular Science|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tCIDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA711|date=March 1898|publisher=Bonnier Corporation|page=711}} Her poems To My Valentine and Easter Glory were printed and bound with decorated covers that are tied with either a cord or ribbon.{{cite news |date=February 12, 1908 |title= By Anna Olcott Commelin |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/36742088/the_brooklyn_daily_eagle/ |work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle |location=Brooklyn, New York |access-date=October 5, 2019 |via=Newspapers.com}} An 1895 review by The Daily Republican of her work Of Such is the Kingdom of Heaven and other poems stated, "The volume is a rare exhibition of bookmaking art in the six essentials of beauty, paper, type, binding, cover, and design".{{cite news |date=February 23, 1895 |title=Literary Notes |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/36742079/the_daily_republican/ |work=The Daily Republican |location=Monongahela, Pennsylvania |access-date=October 5, 2019 |via=Newspapers.com}}
Death
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Category:American women journalists
Category:Poets from New York City
Category:Journalists from Brooklyn
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