Julia Boynton Green

Julia Boynton Green (May 25, 1861 – July 10, 1957) was an American author and poet. She is remembered as an "anti-modernist who railed against free verse".[1] She was the author of a volume of poems entitled Lines and Interlines,[2] as well as This Enchanted Coast: Verse on California Themes and Noonmark.

Julia Boynton Green
"A woman of the century"
BornJulia P. Boynton
May 25, 1861
South Byron, New York, U.S.
DiedJuly 10, 1957(1957-07-10) (aged 96)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Resting placeHollywood Forever Cemetery
Occupationauthor, poet
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
RelativesNathanial Greene

Early years and education

Julia P. Boynton was born in South Byron, New York, May 25, 1861.[lower-alpha 1] Her father was James T. Boynton (d. 1889). She had at least one sibling, a sister, Mrs. A. H. Green.[3] She was a descendant of Nathanial Greene, major general of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War.[4][lower-alpha 2]

When she was fifteen years old, she and her older sister entered Ingham University, in LeRoy, New York, where they remained a year as students. Another year was spent by both in preparation for Wellesley College. After entering that institution, they were called home after the father's death. Their interrupted course of study was continued for several years, chiefly in Nyack. She afterwards passed two winters in New York in the study of art, followed by a season in London, England.[5]

Career

Most of Green's work appeared in local journals and in the Boston Transcript. In 1887, she published a volume of poems, Lines and Interlines (New York, 1887). In 1888, she was preparing for an extended tour in Europe, when she was called home by the illness of her mother, who subsequently died.[5] She married Levi Worthington Green in June, 1890, and after a six-months' tour in Europe, they made their home in Rochester, New York.[5]

Julia Boynton Green (1905)

In 1893, she removed to Redlands, where her husband became a Southern California pioneer orange rancher and author.[6] Their three children were Gladys, Boynton, and Norman.[7] By 1929, the couple and their daughter had removed to Westwood, as their daughter was working as a librarian at University of California, Los Angeles.[8]

She published a second book of poetry, This Enchanted Coast: Verse on California Themes, in 1928 in Los Angeles. Eight years later, Noonmark was published in Redlands.[9] Noonmark was published in 1936.[1] In 1941, she received an honorable mention from the Los Angeles branch of the League of American Penwomen, as well as a prize from the national contest of American Penwomen.[10]

Death and legacy

She died July 10, 1957,[9] in Los Angeles,[7] and is buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Her papers are collected at the Huntington Library.[11] The L. Worthington Green/Julia Boynton Home, built in 1911, received the 1986 Heritage Award from the Redlands Area Historical Society.[12]

Notes
  1. According to Yaszek & Sharp (2016), Green was born in Boston.[1]
  2. Nathanial Greene's family branch dropped the final e from the surname.[4]

References
  1. Yaszek & Sharp 2016, p. 242.
  2. Herringshaw 1914, p. 1914.
  3. "Deatah of James Boynton, a Wealthy Citizen of South Byron". Newspapers.com. Democrat and Chronicle. 9 September 1889. p. 3. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
  4. "Mr. and Mrs. Green, The Writers Sojourn at Laguna Beach". The San Bernardino County Sun. 6 August 1929. p. 7. Retrieved 22 January 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. Willard & Livermore 1893, p. 336.
  6. "Rites for Green to Be Tomorrow". Newspapers.com. The Los Angeles Times. 21 December 1932. p. 19. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
  7. "Mrs. Julia B. Green Dies". Redlands Daily Facts. 12 July 1957. p. 5. Retrieved 22 January 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. "Julia Boynton Green, Magazine Author". The San Bernardino County Sun. 7 December 1929. p. 12. Retrieved 22 January 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. Allmendinger 2015, p. 261.
  10. "Penwomen Award Prizes in Contest". Newspapers.com. The Los Angeles Times. 14 September 1941. p. 46. Retrieved 22 January 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. "Three Women Los Angeles Poets". Free Space Comix. 28 July 2013.
  12. "1986 HERITAGE AWARD RECIPIENT - L. Worthington Green Home". Redlands Area Historical Society. Retrieved 20 May 2018.

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