Poet and suffragist
Subtitle: and related material
By: tape recorded interviews conducted 1959-1963 by Amelia R. Fry for the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, California, 1979 :
Contributors: Fry, Amelia R.; Erskine, Dorothy, 1906-; Scholten, Catherine M., 1949-1981.; Field, Katherine.; Brophy, Robert J.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.; Suffragists Oral History Project (Bancroft Library)
Published: 1959
Subjects: Wood, Charles Erskine Scott, 1852-1944.; Darrow, Clarence, 1857-1938.; Bufano, Beniamino, 1898-1970.; Sterling, George, 1869-1926.; Powys, John Cowper, 1872-1963.; Powys, Llewelyn, 1884-1939.; Taggard, Genevieve, 1894-1948.; Jeffers, Robinson, 1887-1962.; Jeffers, Una, 1884 or 5-1950.; Steffens, Lincoln, 1866-1936.; Older, Fremont, 1856-1935.; Stackpole, Ralph, 1885-1973.; Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.; San Francisco School of The Arts of The Theatre.; Women -- Suffrage -- United States.; Women poets, American -- 20th century.; Missionaries' spouses -- India.; Missionaries' spouses -- Burma.; World War, 1914-1918 -- United States -- Peace.
Description: Sara Bard Field comments on early marriage to minister and life as missionary bride in India and Burma; return to U.S. and growing interest in socialism and urban reform; role in women suffrage campaign and Woman's Party; relationship with Charles E.S. Wood; friendship with Clarence Darrow; anti-war movement, World War I; radical political and artistic movements in '20s and '30s; establishment of San Francisco School of the Arts of the Theater; friendship with artists and writers of the Bay area and New York, including Beniamino Bufano, George Sterling, John and Llewelyn Powys, Genevieve Taggard, Robinson and Una Jeffers, Lincoln Steffens, Fremont Older, Ralph Stackpole and John Steinbeck; her poetry and that of C.E.S. Wood. Copies of photographs inserted.
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