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Edna Kingsley Wallace
A little-known early 20th-century poet and prose writer, remembered today for dreamy, lyrical books that blend romance, symbolism, and imaginative storytelling. Her surviving record is thin, which gives her work an added air of mystery.
1 Audiobook
The Stars in the Pool: A Prose Poem for Lovers
by Edna Kingsley Wallace
About the author
Edna Kingsley Wallace was an American writer active in the early 1900s. Reliable catalog and library records confirm works including The Stars in the Pool: A Prose Poem for Lovers and The Quest of the Dream, and archival records at the New York Public Library show her as a correspondent in the 1906–1908 period.
Very little firmly documented biographical information appears to be easily available online. A researcher-maintained site devoted to her work notes that most of her published poems appeared between about 1901 and 1907, which fits the dates of the books and records that survive.
What stands out most is the tone of her writing: romantic, atmospheric, and interested in beauty, longing, and dreamlike experience. Even with so little known about her life, her books suggest a writer drawn to poetic prose and to the emotional, imaginative side of literature.