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Elizabeth Peace Sturges Anthony Poetry Book
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Elizabeth Peace Sturges Anthony was born on May 11, 1910 in Providence, RI. She graduated from Smith College in 1933 and obtained a masters in social work from the University of Pennsylvania in 1955. Anthony worked at the Marriage Counsel of Philadelphia and the Friends Service in West Chester as a certified marriage counselor. She and her husband Robert Anthony were lifelong members of the Third Street Friends Meeting and published Water Over the Dam together in 1972, a collection of her poems and his artwork. Anthony also published Waves in the Making, a book of her own artwork and poems. She passed away on April 11, 2012.
Sourced from: https://www.cavanaghfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Elizabeth-Peace-Sturges-Anthony?obId=25167291
Folder including one book of poems written and compiled by Elizabeth Peace Sturges Anthony as a Christmas gift for Edith Warren Johnson. Subjects in her poems include love, friendship, and her relationship to animals and nature.
This collection is comprised of one book in a folder.
Unknown acquisition.
Processed by Campbell Adams, September 2023.
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- Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections
- Finding Aid Author
- Campbell Adams
- Finding Aid Date
- September, 2023
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The collection is open for research use.
- Use Restrictions
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Standard Federal Copyright Law Applies (U.S. Title 17)