Book - Dancing Shadows by Grace Miner Lippincott
Copy 1 out of 2
1940
Dancing Shadows by Grace Miner Lippincott is published by Banner Press Publishers at Emory University in Georgia in 1940, 8vo (203x141mm), pp.64. This title is bound in original purple pebbled cloth with the upper cover stamped in gold.
Collection of published poems by Madison's Grace Elizabeth Miner Lippincott. Inscribed in 1940 on the first page by the author, "Inscribed for those who know that only sunshine brings shadows / Grace Miner Lippincott . Madison Conn 1940". On the title page is a line drawing by Mary Scranton Evarts.Grace's work includes many direct references to local life. This includes "Boston Street in Midwinter" (pg 32), "Madison by the Sea" (pg 37), "Cedars at Middle Beach" (pg 38), and "Lay of Old Tuxis" (pg 41).
Grace Miner Lippincott was a prolific and renowned poet with six published books, more than 1100 published poems, and ten anthologies. Born in Cornwall, Connecticut, Grace graduated from Madison High School in 1895 and was married to Philadelphia native Levi Lippincott a year later. She spent the rest of her days at the home she and her husband built in Madison in 1907; they called the home “Whimsey Acres,” Learn more about Grace at www.madisonhistory.org/grace-miner-lippincott/
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