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    Leonora Speyer, Lady Speyer (née von Stosch; 7 November 1872 – 10 February 1956), was an American poet and violinist. She was born in Washington, D.C...
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  • (d. 1934) 1872 – Lucille La Verne, American actress (d. 1945) 1872 – Leonora Speyer, American poet and violinist (d. 1956) 1876 – Charlie Townsend, English...
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    London. Speyer was educated at the Realgymnasium in Frankfurt. On 10 February 1902, in Hamburg, Speyer married the American violinist Leonora von Stosch...
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  • Wolseley Russell - Lady Margaret Sackville - Anderson M. Scruggs - Leonora Speyer - J. C. Squire - L. Steni - L. A. G. Strong - Sara Teasdale - Katharine...
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    Robinson The Man Who Died Twice 1926 Amy Lowell What's O'Clock 1927 Leonora Speyer Fiddler's Farewell 1928 Edwin Arlington Robinson Tristram 1929 Stephen...
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    Verse Robert Hillyer 1927 Pulitzer Prize Poetry Fiddler's Farewell Leonora Speyer 1923 Pulitzer Prize Novel One of Ours Willa Cather 2009 National Book...
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    partner at Speyer & Co. since 1899, married to Ellin Lowery (1849–1921) Edgar Speyer (1862–1932), moved to London in 1887, married to Leonora von Stosch...
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    4 cm × 56.5 cm 28+1⁄8 in × 22+1⁄4 in Art Institute of Chicago Lady Speyer (Leonora Speyer) 1907 Portrait Oil on canvas 147 cm × 97 cm 58 in × 38 in Private...
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  • Marcel Mauss, French sociologist and anthropologist (b. 1872) 1956 – Leonora Speyer, American poet and violinist (b. 1872) 1956 – Emmanouil Tsouderos, Greek...
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  • Gretchen Osgood Warren Robert P. T. Coffin John Hall Wheelock John Holmes Leonora Speyer Kenneth Porter David McCord Robert Francis Amos Wilder Theodore Spencer...
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  • translator Dora Adele Shoemaker (1873–1962), American poet and playwright Leonora Speyer (1872–1956), American poet and violinist Ilse von Stach (1879–1941)...
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  • (1845–1911, A) Stephen Spender (1909–1995, E) Edmund Spenser (1552–1599, E) Leonora Speyer (1872–1956, US) Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford (1835–1921, US)...
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    friends. Elgar had already had help with the sketches from the violinist Leonora Speyer (professionally known as Madame von Stosch) in January 1910. In March...
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  • Robinson, Jessie Belle Rittenhouse, Blanche Shoemaker Wagstaff and Leonora Speyer. The first stanza of his poem Atavism (1902) is used as the epigraph...
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    Charles Henry Lyell Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick Edgar Speyer and Leonora Speyer Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby Emily Hobhouse Eric Hambro...
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    Léautaud, Louis Madelin, Henry Louis Mencken, Alan Alexander Milne, Leonora Speyer, Michael Ventris, Samad Vurgun, and Robert Walser died in 1956 without...
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  • Spender, 1901–1970), crime wr. Vanessa Spence (b. 1961, Jamaica), nv. Leonora Speyer (1872–1956, United States), poet & violinist Hilde Spiel (1911–1990...
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  • there as part of a "Fauré Festival" in which other performers included Leonora Speyer, Frank Bridge, Ivor James and the composer. During the First World War...
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  • for Drama: Paul Green, In Abraham's Bosom Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Leonora Speyer, Fiddler's Farewell Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Louis Bromfield, Early...
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  • Heiskell, U.S. Senator from Arkansas in 1913 (died 1972) November 7 – Leonora Speyer, née von Stosch, classical violinist and poet (died 1956) November 11...
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  • Gilder, Edwin Arlington Robinson, James Harvey Robinson, John Dewey, Leonora Speyer, Herbert Adams, Robert Aitken, Hobart Nichols, Irving Ramsey Wiles,...
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  • after the Civil War, and with whom she had two daughters. Her daughter Leonora Speyer was a poet (and winner of the 1927 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry) and violinist...
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  • Daughter of Claudius (first female winner) Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Leonora Speyer, Fiddler's Farewell Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in...
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  • (poem) (Edwin Markham) - Jul 1911 "The Eternal Masculine" (short story) (Leonora Speyer) - May 1919 "Whitemail" (short story) (Joyce Kilmer) - Mar 1914 "The...
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  • accessed at [2] Hartshorne Award for 1957. Wisconsin Poetry Magazine. Leonora Speyer Memorial Award 1961, for "New England Vignette". The Poetry Society...
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  • Autobiography: Whitman by Emory Holloway (Knopf) Poetry: Fiddler's Farewell by Leonora Speyer (Knopf) "Winners of Pulitzer Prizes in journalism and letters announced"...
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  • England” (text by Alma Phillips) Wood-nymph (mixed quartet; text by Leonora Speyer) “Your Land and My Land” (text by George M. Demarest) Cohen, Aaron I...
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  • Carpenter, Leah Bodine Drake, Frances Minturn Howard, Ulrich Troubetzkoy Leonora Speyer Memorial Award: Lois Smith Hiers Annual Award: Joyce Horner Borestone...
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    Professor, and other poems by A. C. Benson. It was dedicated to 'Mrs. Edward Speyer, Ridgehurst'. At about the same time Elgar wrote a song In the Dawn, as...
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  • Kuzmin (died 1936), Russian poet, novelist and composer November 7 – Leonora Speyer (died 1956), American poet and violinist November 30 – John McCrae (died...
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