Abbie Huston Evans (December 20, 1881 – October 1983) was an Americanpoet and teacher.
Her father, Bard Lewis Darenydd Evans, immigrated to the United States fromWales. He labored as a coal miner, until he was accepted for college. He studied two years atWestern Reserve University, and graduated fromBangor Theological Seminary.
Abbie Evans was born inLee, New Hampshire, and graduated fromRadcliffe College with a B.A. (1913,Phi Beta Kappa) and M.A. (1918), where she studied withOdell Shepard. She went to France during World War I, then came home to work as a social worker to coal miners in Colorado and Pittsburgh. She later taught at theSettlement Music School in Philadelphia from 1923 to 1953. She lived at 414 Queen Street inPhiladelphia. Then she taught at College Settlement Farm-Camp inHorsham, Pennsylvania from 1953 to 1957. She summer vacationed at the Maine coast.
Edna St. Vincent Millay was a friend from Sunday school, and wrote an introduction toOutcrop.Margaret Marshall, at Harcourt, Brace was her friend, and poetry editor.Louise Bogan accepted Abbie’s poems forThe New Yorker.
She received an honorary degree fromBowdoin College, in 1961,[1]
Her poems appeared inThe Nation,[2]The New Yorker,[3] andPoetry.[4] She recorded for the Library of Congress in 1964.[5]
Her letters with Odell Shepard are at theUniversity of Delaware.[6] Barbara Lachman was working on a biography.[7]
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