Sallie Bridges
{{Short description|American poet (1830–1910)}}
Sarah Bridges Stebbins, a Philadelphian better known under the pen name Sallie Bridges{{cite book|title=A New Companion to Malory |editor1-first=Megan G. |editor1-last=Leitch |editor2-first=Cory James |editor2-last=Rushton |publisher=D. S. Brewer |year=2019 |isbn=9781843845232 |chapter=Malory in America |first=Daniel |last=Helbert |pages=296–316}} (1830-1910), was an American poet, best known today for her adaptations of Arthurian legend.{{cite journal |title=King Arthur in America by Alan Lupack and Barbara Tepa Lupack |first=Michael N. |last=Salda |journal=Arthuriana |volume=10 |issue=1|year=2000 |pages=142–144 |doi=10.1353/art.2000.0025|s2cid=160754619 }}
Writing career
Bridges's Marble Isle (1864){{cite book |title=Acting in the Night: Macbeth and the Places of the Civil War |first=Alexander |last=Nemerov |publisher=U of California P |year=2010 |isbn=9780520947443 |pages=37–40}} is a collection of poetic adaptations from Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur. According to Daniel Helbert, she is the first American writer "to truly adapt and interpret Malory's text as a comprehensive literary enterprise".
Annals of a Baby, was first published anonymously in 1877 and was written by John Habberton. (See: John Habberton) It is a humorous look at motherhood and family life; it tells of the birth and growth of a nameless baby in a world of stock characters--the Young Mother, the Young Aunties, the Fat Nurse, etc. The book was published in the "Helen's Babies" series.{{cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QwBCAQAAMAAJ&pg=PT14 |page=14 |chapter=The Annals of a Baby |title=Mrs. Mayburn's Twins: With Her Trials in the Morning, Noon, Afternoon and Evening of Just One Day |first=John |last=Habberton |publisher=T.B. Peterson & Brothers |year=1882}} (This paragraph should be stricken from this report on Sallie Bridges Stebbins.)
Bibliography
=Poetry=
- {{cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=euE4AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA265 |pages=264–65 |title=Poems of Places: America |editor1-first=Henry Wadsworth |editor1-last=Longfellow |publisher=J. R. Osgood |year=1879 |chapter=Santa Cruz |editor1-link=Henry Wadsworth Longfellow}}
- {{cite journal |title=What Are the Wild Waves Saying?, Out Of the Shell |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OkXQAAAAMAAJ&pg=302 |pages=302, 337 |journal=Arthur's Home Magazine |volume=50 |year=1882}}
- {{cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZpdPAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA356 |page=356 |title=A Child's Mission |year=1885 |journal=Demorest's Family Magazine |volume=21}}
- {{cite journal |title=Barye |journal=Modern Art |volume=1 |issue=4 |year=1893 |jstor=25609823 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25609823|last1=Stebbins |first1=Sallie Bridges |doi=10.2307/25609823 |url-access=subscription }}
References
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External links
- [https://d.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/publication/bridges-marble-isle Marble Isle (1864)]
- {{Internet Archive |annalsofbaby00steb| Annals of Baby (1882)}}
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