Marianne Moore (1887-1972)When Alyse Gregory, in 1925, decided to leave her position as Acting Editor at The Dial in order to follow her husband Llewelyn Powys to England, Marianne Moore took over. In her book of reminiscences The Day Is Gone, Alyse Gregory describes her as she was then: |
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Slim and straight, dressed in a sober and original manner, with a mass of beautiful, fine, reddish hair, coiled in broad shining plaits about her small head, Miss Moore combined delicacy of observation with vigor of mind. |
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Marianne Moore was born in St Louis, Missouri and studied at Bryn Mawr. After having taught at the U.S. Indian school in Carlisle, Penn., she came to work at the New York Public Library, and then joined the staff of Thayer & Watson's The Dial magazine until it was finally discontinued with the July issue, 1929. In her book Predilections, she described the place with affection: I think of the compacted pleasantness of those days at 152 West Thirteenth Street; of the three-story brick building with carpeted stairs, fireplace and white-mantelpiece rooms, business office in the first story front parlor, and in gold-leaf block letters, THE DIAL, on the windows to the right of the brownstone steps leading to the front door.Among the many people she was to meet while working at The Dial, JCP gets an amused aside of a few lines: John Cowper Powys, inalienable verbalist and student of strangeness, inventor of the term "fairy cardinal" for Padraic Colum, seemed himself a supernatural being; so good a Samaritan, any other phase of endowment was almost an overplus. As Mrs Watson said of his conversation, "He is so intense, you don't know whether he's talking or listening." (Predilections) |
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