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Title	Edith M. Thomas Scrapbook
Subject	Literary Ohio Ohio Women Poetry
Place	Geneva (Ohio) Ashtabula County (Ohio) Medina (Ohio) Medina County (Ohio)
Description	Poet Edith M. Thomas (1854-1925) kept this scrapbook of her work. It includes handwritten poems and clippings of Thomas' published works. The scrapbook is approximately 59 pages long and measures 7" x 10" (17.8 x 25.4 cm). Selections digitized here include a speech delivered by Thomas for the Fourth of July celebration at Roseland Park, an article titled "One Woman's Voice Against War" and several pages original poems. Thomas was born August 12, 1854 in Medina County. Her family moved to Bowling Green in 1859. After the death of her father in 1861, Thomas and her mother and sisters moved to Geneva, Ohio. Her first poems were published in the Geneva Times. Thomas attended Geneva schools and was a member of the first graduating class of Geneva High School in 1872. She later lived in New York and published dozens of poems in newspapers and periodicals, including The Critic, Atlantic Monthly, The Weekly Magazine, The Acorn, and The Cottage Hearth. Some of her subjects were nature, mythological studies, fable and legend, and Lake Erie. Besides her many poems, Thomas authored sixteen books. Her work was highly praised in England and America. In a Cleveland Plain Dealer article titled "One of America's Most Gifted Women" journalist Archie Bell wrote, "Her pen has not been a prolific one, but in range of literary thought and expression she has eclipsed anything done by a woman since the work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning."
Creator	Thomas, Edith Matilda, 1854-1925
Date of Original	1875 - 1900 circa
Collection	Edith M. Thomas Collection
Source	Unpublished material (archives/manuscripts)
Submitting Institution	Ashtabula County District Library, Geneva Library Branch
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html
Type	Text
Format	book

Title	Om457_1014537_026
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om457_1014537_026.tif
Image Height	2384
Image Width	1750
File Size	1394.231 KB
Full Text	[corresponds to page 34 of Edith Thomas Scrabook] By the way, may I send this extra copy? The Light Sleeper By his lov’d nest and hopes, sits fast asleep The sedge bird in some dewy covert deep: Throw the least pebble there, he quickly wakes [line] Quickly the long bright day’s refrain uptakes. So it is with the Muse’s sleeping [crossed out] slumbering [written above] child: His conch is made upon Parnassus wild. If sleep departs, song wakes within his breast And pours the old melodious unrest. Edith Thomas (not yet printed) White: History of Selborne) 9/94 [printed poems also pasted on page]

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