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Marion Forster Gilmore
b. 1887
An early 20th-century American poet and dramatist, she is known for Virginia: A Tragedy, and Other Poems, published in Louisville in 1910. Very little biographical detail survives in easily accessible sources, which gives her work the feel of a rediscovered voice.
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Virginia: A Tragedy, and Other Poems
by Marion Forster Gilmore
About the author
Marion Forster Gilmore was born in Louisville, Kentucky, on November 27, 1887. The clearest readily available records connect her with Louisville at the time her book was published and later place her death in Los Angeles on January 11, 1965.
Her best-known work is Virginia: A Tragedy, and Other Poems, issued in Louisville by John P. Morton & Company in 1910. The volume combines a verse drama based on the Roman story of Virginia with a group of poems, showing an interest in classical subjects and formal poetic writing.
Because so little background information is widely available online, Gilmore remains a somewhat obscure figure today. That scarcity can make her writing especially appealing for modern listeners: it offers a small but distinctive glimpse of a poet whose work has outlasted the details of her public life.