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Edwina Stanton Babcock
1875–1965
A poet and fiction writer from Nyack, New York, she moved easily between lyric verse, magazine work, and longer prose. Her writing ranges from classical subjects to social questions, giving modern listeners a glimpse of an energetic early-20th-century literary life.
4 Audiobooks
Under the Law
by Edwina Stanton Babcock
Nantucket windows
by Edwina Stanton Babcock
Greek wayfarers, and other poems
by Edwina Stanton Babcock
The flying parliament, and other poems
by Edwina Stanton Babcock
About the author
Edwina Stanton Babcock was an American writer and poet born in Nyack, New York, in 1875. Reliable sources connect her with a broad literary life and note that she published both poetry and fiction, with work appearing in magazines including The Atlantic.
Her books include the poetry collections Greek Wayfarers, and Other Poems (1916) and The Flying Parliament, and Other Poems (1918), as well as prose works such as Under the Law (1923) and Nantucket Windows. The range of titles suggests a writer interested in both imaginative literature and the moral questions of everyday life.
Sources also indicate that she studied at Middlebury College, Columbia University, and the University of Oxford, and that she spent time in places including New York City, Nantucket, and overseas. She died in 1965, leaving behind work that still survives in digital archives and public-domain editions.