| 词条 | Ada Langworthy Collier |
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| name = Ada Langworthy Collier | embed = | honorific_prefix = | honorific_suffix = | image = Ada Langworthy Collier.png | image_size = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | pseudonym = Anna L. Cunningham, Marguerite | birth_name = Ada Langworthy | birth_date = December 23, 1843 | birth_place = Dubuque, Iowa, US | death_date = August 6, 1919 | death_place = | resting_place = Linwood Cemetery, Dubuque, Iowa | occupation = author | language = English | nationality = | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = Lasell Seminary, Auburndale, Massachusetts | period = | genre = sketches, short stories, poems, novels | subject = | movement = | notableworks = Lilith, The Legend of the First Woman | spouse = Robert Hutchison Collier | partner = | children = James Currie Collier | relatives = Lucius Hart Langworthy, father | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | years_active = | module = | website = | portaldisp = }} Ada Langworthy Collier (December 23, 1843 - August 6, 1919; pen names Anna L. Cunningham and Marguerite) was a 19th-century American author from Iowa. She wrote sketches, short stories, poems, and several novels. Collier is remembered for Lilith, The Legend of the First Woman (1885). Early years and educationAda Langworthy was born in Dubuque, Iowa, December 23, 1843, in the first frame house ever built within the present bounds of the State of Iowa. She was a descendant of James Langworthy, of Vermont; and Sergt. Jonathan Massey and Jonathan Woodbury, of New Hampshire; and a granddaughter of Dr. Stephen Langworthy and Betsey Massey.{{sfn|Daughters of the American Revolution|1898|p=174}} Her father, Lucius Hart Langworthy, a descendant of New England pioneers, was among the very first to explore the lead regions of Iowa, and he was one of the founders of the city of Dubuque. Her mother, Valeria A. Bemis, was a member of an old Baltimore family. Though she lived a pioneer life, she did not face the hardships known by others. The lead mines made her father and his brothers wealthy, and soon a group of brick mansions were built on a bluff above the city, where the family lived. In early girlhood, Collier studied at a Dubuque girls' school taught by Catharine Beecher. Afterward, she went to Lasell Seminary, Auburndale, Massachusetts, graduating in 1861, at the age of 17, even though she had been ill with "brain fever".{{sfn|Willard|Livermore|1893|p=192}} CareerCollier began to write for periodicals in her childhood. She was the author of many sketches, tales and short poems, of several novels, and of one long, narrative poem, "Lilith" (Boston, 1885); the last was her greatest work.{{sfn|Willard|Livermore|1893|p=192}} She occasionally used pen names, including "Anna L. Cunningham" and "Marguerite".[1] Collier was a leader in club work in Dubuque, serving as president of the Dubuque Ladies' Literary Association, and auditor of the Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs.{{sfn|Brigham|1896|p=280}} Personal lifeOn October 15, 1867, she married Robert Hutchison Collier (1842-1896). They had one child, James Currie Collier (b. 1869).{{sfn|Langworthy|Langworthy|1940|p=267}} She died August 6, 1919.{{sfn|Langworthy|Langworthy|1940|p=267}} Selected works{{div col|colwidth=30em}}
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References1. ^1 2 {{cite web|title=Collier, Ada Langworthy|url=http://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?title=COLLIER,_Ada_Langworthy|publisher=Encyclopedia Dubuque|accessdate=30 April 2017}} Attribution
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10 : 1843 births|1919 deaths|19th-century American poets|19th-century American women writers|American women poets|People from Dubuque, Iowa|Writers from Iowa|Pseudonymous writers|Pseudonymous women writers|Victorian poets |
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