Sallie Bridges
Sarah Bridges Stebbins, a Philadelphian better known under the pen name Sallie Bridges[1] (1830-1910), was an American poet, best known today for her adaptations of Arthurian legend.[2]
Writing career[edit]
Bridges's Marble Isle (1864)[3] 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".[1]
Annals of a Baby, first published anonymously and in 1878 and republished, with the author's full name, in 1882, 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.[4]
Bibliography[edit]
Poetry[edit]
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, ed. (1879). "Santa Cruz". Poems of Places: America. J. R. Osgood. pp. 264–65.
- "What Are the Wild Waves Saying?, Out Of the Shell". Arthur's Home Magazine. 50: 302, 337. 1882.
- "A Child's Mission". Demorest's Family Magazine. 21: 356. 1885.
- Stebbins, Sallie Bridges (1893). "Barye". Modern Art. 1 (4). doi:10.2307/25609823. JSTOR 25609823.
References[edit]
- ^ a b Helbert, Daniel (2019). "Malory in America". In Leitch, Megan G.; Rushton, Cory James (eds.). A New Companion to Malory. D. S. Brewer. pp. 296–316. ISBN 9781843845232.
- ^ Salda, Michael N. (2000). "King Arthur in America by Alan Lupack and Barbara Tepa Lupack". Arthuriana. 10 (1): 142–144. doi:10.1353/art.2000.0025. S2CID 160754619.
- ^ Nemerov, Alexander (2010). Acting in the Night: Macbeth and the Places of the Civil War. U of California P. pp. 37–40. ISBN 9780520947443.
- ^ Habberton, John (1882). "The Annals of a Baby". Mrs. Mayburn's Twins: With Her Trials in the Morning, Noon, Afternoon and Evening of Just One Day. T.B. Peterson & Brothers. p. 14.