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Elizabeth Fry Page
1865–1943
A Southern writer and editor, she moved easily between literature, music, and public speaking. Her life connected magazine work, women’s literary organizations, and a deep interest in cultural history.
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Edward MacDowell, His Work and Ideals
by Elizabeth Fry Page
About the author
Born in Virginia in 1865, Elizabeth Fry Page became an American author and editor whose work was closely tied to the literary life of the South. She later lived in Nashville, where she was active in publishing and club life and helped found the Tennessee Woman's Press and Authors' Club.
Page wrote on both literary and musical subjects. She is especially remembered for Edward MacDowell, His Work and Ideals, a study of the composer that is still the work most often associated with her today. Contemporary biographical sources also describe her as a lecturer on literary, musical, and historical topics.
Her career reflects the wide-ranging cultural work many women writers took on in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: editing, organizing, speaking, and preserving regional memory. She died in 1943, leaving behind a record of service to Southern literary circles as well as her own published writing.