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.

Lucia C. G. Grieve
Born
Lucia Catherine Graeme Grieve

April 30, 1862
Dublin, Ireland
DiedNovember 26, 1946 (aged 84)
Asbury Park, New Jersey, U.S.
Occupation(s)Poet, scholar, educator

Early life and education

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Grieve 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]

 
Advertisement for Grieve's Thomasville Academy (1899)

Career

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Grieve 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

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  • Death And Burial In Attic Tragedy: Death And The Dead (1898)[5]
  • "Some Folk-Stories of Rāmdās the Last of the Sages" (1904)[17]
  • "The Dasara Festival at Satara, India" (1909)[18]
  • "The Muharram in Western India" (1910)[19]
  • "The Collecting of Coins in India" (1927)[20]

Personal life

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Grieve died in 1946, at the age of 84, at a hospital in Asbury Park, New Jersey.[14]

References

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  1. ^ a b Karttunen, Klaus (2020-10-16). "Persons of Indian Studies: Grieve, Lucia Catherine Graeme –". Retrieved 2024-10-30.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ "Dr. Louise H. Grieve". Asbury Park Press. March 9, 1932. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ a b Grieve, Lucia Catherine Graeme (1898). Death and Burial in Attic Tragedy: Death and the dead. Columbia University.
  6. ^ "The Thomasville Academy (advertisement)". The Daily Times-Enterprise. August 23, 1899. p. 3 – via Georgia Historic Newspapers.
  7. ^ "Artistic, Literary Lights Revealed in Search for County's Celebrities". Asbury Park Press. December 14, 1936. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Round Table Group Hears Talk on India". Asbury Park Press. p. 13 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "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.
  10. ^ "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.
  11. ^ "Dr. Lucia Grieve Heads Round Table". Asbury Park Press. September 11, 1940. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ "Tribute Paid to Bible Translators". Asbury Park Press. December 3, 1935. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "Dr. Lucia Grieve Gives Travel Talk". Asbury Park Press. May 2, 1945. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ 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.
  15. ^ "Dr. Grieve is Elected by Church Mission Unit". Asbury Park Press. June 23, 1938. p. 17 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ^ "Dr. Grieve Will Speak at W. F. M. S. Session". Asbury Park Press. April 28, 1938. p. 15 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. ^ 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.
  18. ^ 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.
  19. ^ Grieve, Lucia C. G. (1910) "The Muharram in Western India" The Open Court 8(1910): Article 3.
  20. ^ 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.
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