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Marian Longfellow
1849–1924
A poet and writer from the celebrated Longfellow family, she moved in prominent literary and social circles while building a creative life of her own. Her work included poetry collections and songs, and her name still surfaces in archives that trace American cultural life at the turn of the twentieth century.
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Contrasted Songs
by Marian Longfellow
About the author
Born in 1849, Marian Adèle Longfellow O'Donoghue was the daughter of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. She wrote poetry and was associated with published work including Contrasted Songs.
Records and reference pages also connect her to the name Marian Longfellow Morris O'Donoghue, showing how she appears in historical archives and correspondence. Materials preserved by the Theodore Roosevelt Center suggest that she was part of the well-connected social world that linked writers, public figures, and prominent families of her era.
She died in 1924. Although she is often remembered through her famous family name, the surviving references point to a literary identity of her own as a poet and author.