Author: Sally Kinsolving
Alternate names: Kinsolving, Mrs. Sally Bruce; Kinsolving, Sally (Bruce) Mrs.; Sally Bruce Kinsolving; Sally Archer Bruce
Title: Mrs.
Born: 14 February 1876
Died: 27 April 1962
Bio: Sally Bruce Kinsolving was born Sally Archer Bruce on February 14, 1876 in Richmond, Virginia. She was educated in private schools and at the home of her grandfather, Charles Bruce, a former Virginia State Senator. On February 5, 1896, she married the Reverend Arthur Barksdale Kinsolving. The couple moved to Baltimore in 1906. They had a total of seven children: Arthur Lee, Sally, Herbert, Mary Bruce, Anne Seddon, Lucinda, and Eleanor. Anne Seddon (m. Anne Seddon Kinsolving Brown) later became a writer. Sally Kinsolving was a volunteer worker in the church until she published her first volume of poetry, Depths and Shallows, in 1921. Three other volumes followed: David and Bathsheba, and other poems, in 1922; Grey Heather, in 1930; and Many Waters, in 1942. Her correspondence indicates that the poetry was well-received in the literary world. Sally was a member of the Poetry Society of America. She founded the Poetry Society of Maryland in 1923 and served as its president from 1929-38. Sally Bruce Kinsolving died April 27, 1962, after a long illness.

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