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Marian Longfellow
1849–1924
A poet, storyteller, and literary organizer, she wrote with a warm 19th-century voice and helped create a wider place for women writers in American letters.
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Contrasted Songs
by Marian Longfellow
About the author
Marian Adele Longfellow O'Donoghue (April 1, 1849 – January 23, 1924) was an American writer of poetry, stories, and journalism. She was the niece of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, but she built a career of her own through published verse, prose, and public literary work.
She is especially remembered as one of the founders of the National League of American Pen Women in 1897, an organization created to bring together women writers, journalists, and artists. That role gives her a lasting place not just as an author, but as someone who helped make the literary world more welcoming for other women.
Her work has remained of interest through poetry collections, shorter pieces, and later preservation in public-domain archives and volunteer reading libraries. A surviving portrait appears on her Wikipedia page, though the available image online is a fairly small scan rather than a high-resolution photograph.