About Mary Page Bird
Lived 1866 – 1924 (aged 57–58). Mary Page Bird was an American novelist.
Mary Bowdoin Page Bird ( – ) was an American poet and novelist.
Mary Bowdoin Page was born on in Cobham, Albemarle County, Virginia. She was the daughter of Carter Henry Page and Leila Graham Page and a member of the prominent Page family. In 1892, she married Gilbert Bonham Bird from Berwickshire. They lived in England and later in North Carolina.
She wrote poetry and particularly focused on the sonnet form. She had reportedly written a hundred sonnets by her early twenties. She published numerous poems in publications, including Lippincott's and Harper's. She also serialized her work Sir Wilfred in the magazine Things and Thoughts.
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Who was Mary Page Bird?
American novelist
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Mary Page Bird was born in 1866 in Cobham.
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Mary Page Bird died in 1924 in London.
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Mary Page Bird was a novelist.
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Mary Page Bird was American.
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