Elizabeth H. Connor

Elizabeth H. Connor is known today chiefly for Poems of Peace and War, a collection published in 1917 and preserved by Project Gutenberg. The book places her among American writers responding to the emotional and moral atmosphere of World War I.

Published records for Connor are limited, so only a small outline of her life can be confirmed with confidence. A historical image from Calisphere identifies an Elizabeth Connor in the Mount Wilson Observatory Library in Pasadena; because the available sources do not clearly prove that this is the same person as the poet, that connection should be treated cautiously rather than as certain biography.

What does come through clearly is the tone of her writing: sincere, reflective, and closely tied to the concerns of ordinary life during a time of upheaval. For listeners interested in overlooked authors and period verse, her work has the appeal of a rediscovered voice from the 1910s.