Edith Matilda Thomas

Edith Matilda Thomas (1854-1925) was an American writer, born in Chatham, Ohio, and educated at the normal school of Geneva, Ohio.

She began writing early for the local newspapers, then was encouraged by Mrs. Helen Hunt Jackson to send verse to more important periodicals. Her first volume appeared in 1885 entitled "A New Year's Masque and Other Poems".

Other books are:
* "The Round Year" (1886)
* "Lyrics and Sonnets" (1887)
* "Babes of the Year" (1888)
* "Babes of the Nation" (1889)
* "Heaven and Earth" (1889)
* "The Inverted Torch" (1890)
* "Fair Shadow Land" (1893)
* "In Sunshine Land" (1895)
* "In the Young World" (1895)
* "A Winter Swallow, and Other Verse" (1896)
* "The Dancers" (1903)
* "Cassia, and other Verse" (1905)
* "Children of Christmas" (1907)
* "The Guest of the Gate" (1909)
* "The White Messenger, and Other War Poems" (1915)

External links

* [http://oasis.harvard.edu:10080/oasis/deliver/~hou00989 Harvard University Library, listing of works by Edith Matilda Thomas]

For an essay on Thomas by Kevin De Ornellas see 'Early American Nature Writers: A Biographical Encyclopedia' by Daniel Patterson (Editor), Greenwood Press (2007), ISBN-10: 0313346801.