Florence Earle Coates
Florence Van Leer Earle Nicholson Coates was an American poet.
She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Granddaughter of noted abolitionist and philanthropist Thomas Earle, and eldest daughter of Philadelphia lawyer George H. Earle, Sr. and Mrs. Frances Van Leer Earle, Mrs. Coates gained notoriety both at home and abroad for her works of poetrynearly threehundred of which were published in literary magazines such as the Atlantic Monthly, Scribners Magazine, The Literary Digest, Lippincotts, The Century Magazine, and Harpers. Many of her poems were set to music by composers such as Mrs. H. H. A. Beach , Clayton Johns, and Charles Gilbert Spross. She attended school in New England under the instruction of abolitionist and teacher Theodore Dwight Weld, and would further her education abroad at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Paris , and by studying music in Brussels under noted instructors of the day.
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