Marian Douglas
{{Infobox writer
| name = Annie Douglas Green Robinson
| image = Marian Douglas (1894).png
| alt = B&W portrait photo of a middle-aged woman, hair parted in the middle and pulled back, wearing a fancy coat.
| caption = (1894)
| pseudonym = Marian Douglas
| birth_name = Annie Douglas Green
| birth_date = 1842
| birth_place = Plymouth, New Hampshire, U.S.
| death_date = June 7, 1913
| death_place = Bristol, New Hampshire, U.S.
| occupation = {{hlist|poet|short story writer}}
| genre = children's literature
| spouse = {{married|Frank Warren Robinson|1877}}
}}
Marian Douglas was the pen name of Annie D. Green, later, Annie Douglas Green Robinson (1842–1913), an American poet and short story writer.{{cite magazine |author=H. E. G. |editor-last1=Moulton |editor-first1=Charles Wells |title=Marian Douglas |magazine=The Magazine of Poetry and Literary Review |date=1894 |volume=6 |issue=11 |pages=477–80 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dz5XAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA477 |access-date=15 December 2023 |publisher=C.W. Moulton |language=en}} {{Source-attribution}} Her poems appeared irregularly in various periodicals. She is best known by her poems and stories for children.{{cite book |title=New Hampshire Material |date=1926 |publisher=New Hampshire Public Libraries |page=20 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tph_5n1GmVUC&pg=PA20 |access-date=15 December 2023 |language=en}} {{Source-attribution}}
Early life and education
Annie Douglas Green (misspelled, Greene){{cite book |author1=Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh |title=Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh |date=1907 |publisher=Carnegie library |page=1799 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LOHUAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1799 |access-date=15 December 2023 |language=en}} {{Source-attribution}} was born in Plymouth, New Hampshire, in 1842. She was one of the eight children of William Green (1788–1869) and Harriet (Kimball) Green (1799–1881). Annie's siblings were Harriet (b. 1830), Benjamin (b. 1832), Clarissa (b. 1834), Mary (b. 1836), Martha (b. 1838), and Clarissa (b. 1845).{{cite web |title=Annie Douglas Green Female 12 January 1842 – 7 June 1913 |url=https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KHMB-9BN |website=www.familysearch.org |access-date=15 December 2023}} Peter Green of Lancaster, Massachusetts, was her grandfather. He graduated from Harvard University in 1766, was a surgeon in the Revolutionary War and a physician in Concord, New Hampshire, from 1772 for fifty years. Books from his library were placed in the New Hampshire Historical Society Library.
She went to Bristol, New Hampshire, with her parents when a girl, and there all her literary work was done.
Douglas received the greater part of her education in private schools, of which it is probable that Bradford Academy, Haverhill, Massachusetts, was one.
Career
Her first published poem appeared, when she was fifteen, in the Southern Literary Messenger, whose editor, John Reuben Thompson, the poet of Virginia, showed much interest in her early verses. In 1861 and 1862, she, for a time, sent, weekly, a poem to the Boston Transcript, one of them, "The Soldier's Mother", being nearly as widely copied by the papers of the South as by those of the North. A little later, she became a contributor to Our Young Folks, and to The Nursery, a juvenile magazine of Boston.
A collection of her children's verses, titled Picture Poems for Young People, was issued in 1872. Some of these poems, as "The Motherless Turkeys", "Two Pictures", and others, were widely copied, both in the U.S. and in England. A subsequent edition of this book was issued in 1882.
A small book in prose, Peter and Polly, a story of child-life in the American Revolution, appeared in 1876, and this, likewise, was favorably noticed by the reviewers. The New York Evening Post, characterized it as "delicious in its artistic simplicity." Since her first volume, however, Douglas allowed her verses to remain uncollected, and they became widely scattered, some of those originally appearing in The Atlantic, Scribner's Magazine, The Galaxy, and elsewhere. Many of her later poems were brief, like "The Rose" and "The Yellow Leaf", and found place in Harper's Bazar, to which paper she was an occasional contributor for many years.
Personal life
On April 11, 1877, at New Hampton, New Hampshire, she married Frank Warren Robinson (1839–1913).
Annie Douglas Green Robinson remained a Bristol resident all her life, dying June 7, 1913.{{cite web |title=Robinson, Annie (pseudonym "Marian Douglas") (F) |url=https://dvpp.uvic.ca/prs_825.html |website=dvpp.uvic.ca |publisher=Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project |access-date=15 December 2023}}
Selected works
=Annie D. Green=
- Picture Poems for Young People, 1872, 1882 (2nd ed.) ([https://books.google.com/books?id=R2aiOXHe3hEC text])
- Peter and Polly: Or, Home-life in New England a Hundred Years Ago, 1876 ([https://books.google.com/books?id=KFIbrnXp7oMC text])
=Annie Douglas Green Robinson=
- In the Poverty Year, 1901 ([https://books.google.com/books?id=tfQWAAAAYAAJ text])
- Days we remember, 1903 ([https://archive.org/details/daysweremember00dougiala text])
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Category:19th-century American poets
Category:19th-century American women writers
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Category:Pseudonymous women writers
Category:American children's writers
Category:American women children's writers