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Mary Sinton Leitch (7 September 1876 – 20 August 1954) was an American writer, poet, and editor, who helped to found the Poetry Society of Virginia.

Personal life

Mary Sinton Lewis was born in New York City in 1876, daughter of Charlton Thomas and Nancy Dunlap McKeen Lewis. She attended Smith College and Columbia University, and studied in France and Germany.

She married John David Leitch in 1907, and they settled in Lynnhaven, Virginia. Their home became, according to the The Poetry Review "a centre for much of the poetry life of the Virginia tidewater." They had a daughter and a son: Charlton Leitch Harrell and John Leitch. She was a longtime friend and correspondent of illustrator and author J. J. Lankes.

Leitch died in August 1954 and is buried in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Career

She worked as a women's prison inspector in New York City, before becoming a contributing editor for various magazines and newspapers. She was also an assistant editor of The Historians’ History of the World. She remained active as an editor, including compiling the anthology Lyric Virginia Today, a collection of poetry by living Virginians. Writing, however, became her principal focus.

Between 1922 and 1952, Leitch published seven collections of poetry and short fiction. She contributed to the Virginia Quarterly Review, Harper's Magazine, Poet Lore, The Personalist, and many others. In The Music Makers: an Anthology of Recent American Poetry (1945) Stanton Coblentz described Leitch's work as "predominantly of a lyrical nature, sometimes touched with graceful whimsies." She was called "a gifted lyricist".

Leitch was a founder of the Poetry Society of Virginia, becoming its president in 1933, and co-president 1944-1945.

Bibliography

  • The Wagon and the Star (1922)
  • The Unrisen Morrow (1926)
  • The Black Moon (1929)
  • Spider Architect (1937)
  • From Invisible Mountains (1943)
  • Himself and I (1950)
  • Nightingales on the Moon (1952)

References

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  3. "Troth Announced of Miss Leitch". The New York Times. 7 January 1934. p. 4.
  4. Alumnae Association of Smith College (1923). Smith Alumnae Quarterly. College Archives Smith College Libraries. Alumnae Association of Smith College.
  5. Alumnae Association of Smith College (1929). Smith Alumnae Quarterly. College Archives Smith College Libraries. Alumnae Association of Smith College.
  6. ^ Worthington Smith, Lewis (1929). Women's Poetry To-day. Internet Archive. George Sully & Company.
  7. John Erskine (1948). My Life as a Teacher. Internet Archive. J. B. Lippincott Company.
  8. "Dynamics of American Poetry: LXXVI". The Poetry Review: 77. January 1939.
  9. "Oral History Interview with Harrell, Charlton L. and Leitch, John | Old Dominion University Libraries Digital Collections". olddomuni.access.preservica.com. Retrieved 2025-01-07.
  10. "Collection: Mary Sinton Leitch Correspondence with J. J. Lankes | ArchivesSpace Public Interface". aspace.lib.vt.edu. Retrieved 2025-01-07.
  11. ^ Coblentz, Stanton (1945). The Music Makers: an Anthology of Recent American Poetry. Internet Archive. Bernard Ackerman.
  12. Scribner's Magazine. Internet Archive. Out-of-copyright. April 1933.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  13. "Mary Sinton Leitch | VQR". www.vqronline.org. Retrieved 2025-01-07.
  14. Leitch, Mary Sinton (1922). The Waggon and the Star. The Library of Congress. Boston, B. J. Brimmer company.
  15. "Works by Mary Sinton Leitch - PhilPapers". philpapers.org. Retrieved 2025-01-07.
  16. Virginia: A Guide To The Old Dominion. New York: Oxford University Press. 1941. p. 166.
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