Fannie Heaslip Lea

Fannie Heaslip Lea
BornOctober 30, 1884
New Orleans, Louisiana
DiedJanuary 13, 1955 (1955-01-14) (aged 70)
New York, New York
OccupationAuthor and poet
Alma materH. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College
Notable works"The Dead Faith"
Spouse
Hamilton Pope Agee
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(m. 1911; div. 1926)​
ChildrenAnne Worthen Agee

Fannie Heaslip Lea (October 30, 1884 – January 13, 1955) was an American author and poet,[1] best known for her poem "The Dead Faith".

Biography

Fannie (sometimes spelled Fanny) Heaslip Lea, the daughter of newspaperman James J. Lea and Margaret Heaslip, was born in New Orleans, Louisiana.[1] After attending public schools in New Orleans, she matriculated to H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College in New Orleans, where she received a B.A. in 1904, and did graduate work in English at Tulane University in Louisiana for two years after.[2]

Until her marriage in 1911, she wrote feature articles for New Orleans daily newspapers and short stories for magazines such as Harper's, a short story, "Little Anna and the Gentleman Adventurer", in the 1910 The Century Magazine and Woman's Home Companion.[3] Afterwards, she moved with her husband, Hamilton Pope Agee,[4] to Honolulu. Her first novel, Quicksands, was published in this year. She continued to write through the birth of a daughter, Anne Worthen. She divorced Agee in 1926 and moved to New York, publishing 19 novels and more than 100 stories, poems, and essays in various newspapers and journals, until her death in 1955.

Lea wrote several plays. Her first, Round-About, was produced in 1929 by the New York Theatre Assembly.[5]

Her papers are housed in the University of Oregon Library in Eugene, Oregon.[6][7]

Bibliography

Lea's works include;

  • The Dead Faith (1908) [8]
  • Quicksands (1911)
  • Jaconetta Stories (1912)
  • Sicily Ann (1914)
  • Chloe Malone (1916)
  • Wild Goose Chance (1929)
  • Take Back the Heart (1931)
  • The four Marys (1937 [9]
  • Nobody's Girl (1940) [10]
  • Half Angel (1946) [11]
  • Verses for Lovers, and Some Others (1955)

Sources

  • Ewell, Barbara C. (2000). "Lea, Fannie Heaslip". Novelguide.com. Archived from the original on July 23, 2011. Retrieved November 1, 2008.

References

  1. ^ a b Harvey, Chance (September 30, 2003). The Life and Selected Letters of Lyle Saxon. Pelican Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4556-0736-5.
  2. ^ Leonard, John William, ed. (1914), Woman's Who's Who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, 1914-1915, New York: American Commonwealth Company, p. 39.
  3. ^ "Chronological List (1908-1944)". The FictionMags Index. Archived from the original on September 4, 2008. Retrieved November 1, 2008.
  4. ^ Rice, Janice. "Biographies from Men of Hawaii transcribed for Genealogy Trails by Janice Rice". Archived from the original on July 8, 2012. Retrieved November 1, 2008.
  5. ^ "The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 28, 1929". Time. October 28, 1929. Retrieved February 19, 2022. Note: This reference does not mention the name of the play.
  6. ^ University of Oregon website, Fannie Heaslip Lea papers
  7. ^ "Lea, Fanny Heaslip, 1884-1955 (search)". University of Oregon Library. Retrieved November 19, 2010.[permanent dead link‍]
  8. ^ "The Dead Faith". Archived from the original on October 22, 2009. Retrieved September 24, 2010.
  9. ^ Hathi Trust website, Fannie Heaslip Lea
  10. ^ World Cat website, Nobody's Girl
  11. ^ ABE Books website, Half Angel