Lucia Catherine Graeme Grieve (April 30, 1862 – November 26, 1946) was an Irish-born American poet, educator, and scholar who wrote and lectured about India.
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Born | Lucia Catherine Graeme Grieve April 30, 1862 Dublin, Ireland |
Died | November 26, 1946 (aged 84) Asbury Park, New Jersey, U.S. |
Occupation(s) | Poet, scholar, educator |
Early life and education
editGrieve was born in Dublin and raised in New York City, the daughter of David Graeme Grieve and Martha Lucy Kinkead Grieve.[1][2] Her sister Louise H. Grieve was a physician and medical missionary in India.[3] She graduated from Wellesley College in 1883,[4] and completed doctoral studies at Columbia University in 1898, with a dissertation on death and burial in Greek tragedies.[5] Her doctoral work included studies at Oxford from 1896 to 1897.[1]
Career
editGrieve taught at several private girls' schools after college. She opened and ran a co-educational school in Thomasville, Georgia in 1899,[6] focused on languages, literature, and art. She wrote poetry and fiction,[7] and gave public lectures about India,[8] sometimes in costume.[9][10]
In the 1930s, Grieve was president of the Ocean Grove Round Table, a women's club in New Jersey.[11][12] In 1945, she gave a lecture to the group about "numerous experiences in taking her pet cat on 50,000 miles of travel."[13] She was a member of the American Oriental Society, the London Poetry Society, the Kipling Society of London,[14] and the Women's Foreign Missionary Society.[15][16]
Publications
editPersonal life
editGrieve died in 1946, at the age of 84, at a hospital in Asbury Park, New Jersey.[14]
References
edit- ^ a b Karttunen, Klaus (2020-10-16). "Persons of Indian Studies: Grieve, Lucia Catherine Graeme –". Retrieved 2024-10-30.
- ^ Hamersly, Lewis Randolph; Leonard, John William; Mohr, William Frederick; Knox, Herman Warren; Holmes, Frank R.; Downs, Winfield Scott (1924). Who's who in New York City and State. L.R. Hamersly Company. p. 539.
- ^ "Dr. Louise H. Grieve". Asbury Park Press. March 9, 1932. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Auerbach, Jerold S. (2008-03-16). Explorers in Eden: Pueblo Indians and the Promised Land. UNM Press. pp. 33–35. ISBN 978-0-8263-3946-1.
- ^ a b Grieve, Lucia Catherine Graeme (1898). Death and Burial in Attic Tragedy: Death and the dead. Columbia University.
- ^ "The Thomasville Academy (advertisement)". The Daily Times-Enterprise. August 23, 1899. p. 3 – via Georgia Historic Newspapers.
- ^ "Artistic, Literary Lights Revealed in Search for County's Celebrities". Asbury Park Press. December 14, 1936. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Round Table Group Hears Talk on India". Asbury Park Press. p. 13 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Life of a Brahman Woman; Her Home Environments Described by Mrs. Lucia C. G. Grieve". Evening Star. December 13, 1905. p. 19 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Life of a Brahmin Woman; Dr. Lucia C. G. Grieve's Interesting Lecture in Brooklyn Institute Course". Brooklyn Eagle. May 6, 1908. p. 24 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Dr. Lucia Grieve Heads Round Table". Asbury Park Press. September 11, 1940. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Tribute Paid to Bible Translators". Asbury Park Press. December 3, 1935. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Dr. Lucia Grieve Gives Travel Talk". Asbury Park Press. May 2, 1945. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b "Lucia C. G. Grieve, Poet, an Authority on India, Dies in New Jersey at Age of 84". The New York Times. November 27, 1946. p. 25.
- ^ "Dr. Grieve is Elected by Church Mission Unit". Asbury Park Press. June 23, 1938. p. 17 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Dr. Grieve Will Speak at W. F. M. S. Session". Asbury Park Press. April 28, 1938. p. 15 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Grieve, Lucia C. G. (1904). "Some Folk-Stories of Rāmdās the Last of the Sages". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 25: 185–188. doi:10.2307/592560. ISSN 0003-0279. JSTOR 592560.
- ^ Grieve, Lucia C. G. (1909). "The Dasara Festival at Satara, India". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 30 (1): 72–76. doi:10.2307/3087499. ISSN 0003-0279. JSTOR 3087499.
- ^ Grieve, Lucia C. G. (1910) "The Muharram in Western India" The Open Court 8(1910): Article 3.
- ^ Grieve, Lucia C. G. (1927). "The Collecting of Coins in India". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 47: 185–186. doi:10.2307/593255. ISSN 0003-0279. JSTOR 593255.
External links
edit- American Numismatic Society, Letters between Lucia C. G. Grieve and Howland Wood, 1927 to 1934, on Internet Archive