Lizette Woodworth Reese

REESE, Lizette Woodward. b. Waverly, near Baltimore, Maryland, 8 January 1856; d. Baltimore, 17 December 1935. Born in a village off the York Road leading out of Baltimore (from which comes the title of one of her books), she was a schoolteacher throughout her life, first at St John’s Episcopal School, Waverly, and then at Western High School, Baltimore (1901-1921). She was a prolific and highly-regarded poet: she was awarded the Mary P.L. Keats Prize in 1931. Among her many poetry books were A Branch of May (1887), A Handful of Lavender (1891), A Quiet Road (1896) and A Wayside Lute (1909); she also wrote two prose accounts of her childhood and youth, A Victorian Village: Reminiscences of...