Josephine Preston Peabody

Josephine Preston Peabody (May 30, 1874 – December 4, 1922) was an American poet and dramatist.

She was born in New York and educated at the Girls' Latin School, Boston, and at Radcliffe College.

From 1901 to 1903 she was instructor in English at Wellesley. The Stratford-on-Avon prize went to her in 1909 for her drama The Piper, which was produced in England in 1910; and in America at the New Theatre, New York City, in 1911.

On June 21, 1906 she married Lionel Simeon Marks, a British engineer and professor at Harvard University. They had a daughter, Alison Peabody Marks (July 30, 1908 – April 7, 2008), and a son, Lionel Peabody Marks (b. 10 February 1910).

• Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew (1897)
• The Wayfarers: A Book of Verse (1898)
• Fortune and Men's Eyes: New Poems, with a Play (1900)
• In the Silence (1900)
• Marlowe (her first play),
• The Singing Leaves; a book of songs and spells (1903)
• The Wings (1905), a drama
• The Book of the Little Past (1908)
• The Singing Man (1911), poems
• The Wolf of Gubbio (1913)
• New Poems (1915)

• "Modern Miracle Play Verse". The Independent. Jul 6, 1914. Retrieved July 28, 2012.