Maie Dove Day (November 25, 1847 – March 3, 1923) was an American author and poet in post-Civil War Virginia.
Maie Dove Day | |
|---|---|
| Born | Maie Dove November 25, 1847 Richmond, Virginia, U.S. |
| Died | March 3, 1923 (aged 75) |
| Resting place | Green Hill Cemetery |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Spouse | William Chilton Day |
Early life and family
editMaie Dove was born in 1847 in Richmond, Virginia, the daughter of Samuel E. Dove and Ann Eliza Ricks.[1][2]
In 1872, she married William Chilton Day, a former assistant surgeon in the Confederate States Army and president of the Virginia State Medical Association. Their family resided in Danville, Virginia.[1]
Adult life
editDay authored several works which were published in the 1890s.[3][4] Her book of poetry The Blended Flags, written during the Spanish–American War, has remained in circulation and is in the permanent collection of the Library of Congress.[5][6]
Day was a charter member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and served as historian for the Danville chapter.[2][7] She was a delegate to the organizations' 21st continental congress in 1912.[8]
Day's works have been regarded by historians as an insight into post-Civil War southern womanhood.[9][5][10]
Published works
editReferences
edit- ^ a b Tyler, Lyon Gardiner (1915). Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Under the Editorial Supervision of Lyon Gardiner Tyler. Lewis Historical Publishing Company.
- ^ a b Lineage Book of the Charter Members of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Daughters of the American Revolution. 1907.
- ^ Dewey, Melvil; Bowker, Richard Rogers; Pylodet, L.; Cutter, Charles Ammi; Weston, Bertine Emma; Brown, Karl; Wessells, Helen E. (1899). Library Journal. R. R. Bowker Company.
- ^ Catalogue of Title Entries of Books and Other Articles. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1899.
- ^ a b Turpie, David Charles (2010). The failure of reunion: The South and Republican foreign policy, 1898–1902 (Thesis). OCLC 746331035. ProQuest 856587112.[page needed]
- ^ Flora, Joseph M.; MacKethan, Lucinda Hardwick, eds. (2001). The Companion to Southern Literature: Themes, Genres, Places, People, Movements, and Motifs. LSU Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-2692-9.[page needed]
- ^ Proceedings of the Virginia State Conference. 1911.
- ^ Proceedings of the Continental Congress of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. 1912.
- ^ Ruoff, John Carl (1976). Southern womanhood, 1865–1920: an intellectual and cultural study (Thesis). OCLC 3231383. ProQuest 302793304.[page needed]
- ^ Alderman, Edwin Anderson; Harris, Joel Chandler; Kent, Charles W.; Smith, Charles Alphonso; Knight, Lucian Lamar; Metcalf, John Calvin (1970). Library of Southern Literature: Compiled Under the Direct Supervision of Southern Men of Letters. Johnson Reprint Corporation.[page needed]
- ^ "Day, Maie Dove, Mrs | The Online Books Page". onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2024-05-07.
- ^ Clabough, Casey (2014). Women of War : Selected Memoirs, Poems, and Fiction by Virginia Women Who Lived Through the Civil War. College Station: Texas Review Press. ISBN 978-1-937875-50-3. OCLC 890072332.[page needed]
- ^ Swem, Earl Gregg (1916). A Bibliography of Virginia ...: Titles of books in the Virginia State Library which relate to Virginia and Virginians, the titles of those books written by Virginians, and of those printed in Virginia, but not including ... published official documents. D. Bottom, Superintendent of Public Printing.
- ^ Day, Maie Dove (1899). Virginia. Prehistoric and antebellum. LCCN 99002516.