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Grace Clarke Newton
A Gilded Age poet and society figure, she left behind a small body of graceful, finely made books that mingle verse, childhood pieces, and the sporting world of drag hunting. Her work offers a glimpse of an elegant early-20th-century world now mostly vanished.
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About the author
Born in New York City in 1875, Grace Clarke Newton was the daughter of the prominent art collector Thomas B. Clarke. She moved in wealthy social circles and was remembered as both a poet and a society woman of the Gilded Age.
Her published work includes A Small Girl’s Stories, A Book of Rhyme, Poems in Passing, and A Hunting Alphabet; Project Gutenberg also lists The A B C of Drag Hunting. These books suggest a writer with wide interests, from light verse and children’s writing to the rituals and language of the hunt.
Newton died in 1915, still young, and some of her writing appeared around or after that time. Though not widely known today, her books preserve the voice of a very specific world: refined, playful, and deeply rooted in the culture of her era.