Leonora Speyer

Infobox Person

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caption = "Lady Speyer" by John Singer Sargent, 1907
name = Leonora Speyer
birth_date = November 7 1872 [cite web
url=http://blog.syracuse.com/shelflife/2007/11/writers_born_this_day_175.html
title= Writers born on this day
accessdate= 2008-09-25
last= Ryan
first=Laura T.
year= 2007
work= syracuse.com]
birth_place = Washington, D.C.
death_date = 1956
death_place =
residence =
nationality = American/British
occupation = Violinist
Poet
spouse = 1. ?
2. Sir Edgar Speyer (1902-1932)
children = 3

Leonora Speyer (née von Stosch) (November 7 1872–1956) was an American poet and violinist.

She was born in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Count Ferdinand von Stosch of Mantze in Silesia. She studied music in Brussels, Paris, and Leipzig, and played the violin professionally under the batons of Arthur Nikisch and Anton Seidl, among others. Her first husband died and, in 1902, she married banker Edgar Speyer (later Sir Edgar), of London, where the couple lived until 1915. [cite web
url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/36215
title= Speyer, Sir Edgar, baronet (1862–1932)
accessdate= 2008-09-05
last= Barker
first=Theo
year= 2004
work= Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
publisher= Oxford University Press
doi= 10.1093/ref:odnb/36215] That year, they came to the United States and took up residence in New York, where Speyer began writing poetry. She won the 1927 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for "Fiddlers Farewell." [ [http://poetry.poetryx.com/poets/286/bio/ Poetry X » Poetry Archives » Leonora Speyer » "Biography" ] ]

elected Works

*"American Poets, An Anthology Of Contemporary Verse" (1923)
*"Fiddler's Farewell" (1926)
*"Holy Night; A Yule-Tide Masque" (1919)
*"Slow wall; poems, together with Nor without music" (1944)

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