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  2. Vernon Watkins - Wikipedia

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    The Collected Poems of Vernon Watkins (1986) - reprinted as paperback Golgonooza Press, 2000 and 2005 ISBN 0-903880-73-3; LMNTRE Poems by Vernon Watkins Illustrated by Alan Perry (1999, Ty Llen Publications) - chiefly poems for children; Taliesin and the Mockers by Vernon Watkins ... images by Glenys Cour (2004, Old Stile Press)

  3. Hetty Green - Wikipedia

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    Her favorite poem was William Henry Channing's "My Symphony", which starts with "To live content with small means..." [ 7 ] : 184, 219, 224–226 Despite the strength of her ethics relative to her peers, Green entered the lexicon of turn-of-the-century America with the popular phrase "I'm not Hetty if I do look green."

  4. Grandma Gatewood - Wikipedia

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    Emma Rowena Gatewood (née Caldwell; October 25, 1887 – June 4, 1973), [1] better known as Grandma Gatewood, was an American ultra-light hiking pioneer. After a difficult life as a farm wife, mother of eleven children, and survivor of domestic violence, she became famous as the first solo female thru-hiker of the 2,168-mile (3,489 km) Appalachian Trail (A.T.) in 1955 at the age of 67.

  5. Virginia Ogilvy, Countess of Airlie - Wikipedia

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    Lady Airlie was appointed a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth II on 1 January 1973. [5] She was the first American to serve as a lady-in-waiting. [6] She was following in the footsteps of her husband's grandmother, Mabell, Countess of Airlie, who had been a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Mary. She remained in the position until Queen ...

  6. Obituary poetry - Wikipedia

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    The obituary poets were, in the popular stereotype, either women or clergymen. [12] Obituary poetry may be the source of some of the murder ballads and other traditional narrative verse of the United States, and the sentimental tales told by the obituary poets showed their abiding vitality a hundred years later in the genre of teenage tragedy ...

  7. Mary Wilson, Lady Wilson of Rievaulx - Wikipedia

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    In 1970, her volume of poetry Selected Poems was published, and, in 1976, Mary Wilson was one of three judges of the Booker Prize, the other judges being Walter Allen and Francis King. [5] According to the Dictionary of National Biography entry for Harold Wilson, written by Roy Jenkins, [6] Wilson was not satisfied with life in politics.