PEABODY, JOSEPHINE PRESTON

(1874-1922)

Born in New York, the lifelong poet attended Radcliffe and, after studying withWilliam Vaughn Moody, turned to playwriting. Her major success,The Piper(1911), was, like all of her dramatic works, written in blank verse with romantic settings. Other Peabody plays, often produced bylittle theatres, includeThe Wayfarers(1898),Marlowe(1901),The Wolf of Gubbio(1913), andPortrait of Mrs. W. (1922).