Laura Benét

Laura Benét (13 June 1884 – 17 February 1979), was an American

Early life and education

Laura Benét was born at

Career

Benét was a settlement worker in New York City from 1913 to 1916 and then became an inspector for the Red Cross Sanitary Commission]during World War I.

After the war, she returned home in 1919 to help care for her brother William's three children after the death of his first wife, Teresa Thompson, sister of the novelist Kathleen Thompson Norris, during the

Benét died in New York on February 17, 1979.[1] She is buried at Arlington National Cemetery with her parents, U.S. Army Colonel James Walker Benét (1857-1928) and Frances Neill Rose Benét (1860-1940).

Selected works

• Fairy Bread, 1921
• Noah's Dove, 1929
• Goods And Chattels, 1930
• Basket for a Fair, 1934
• The Boy Shelley, 1937
• Caleb's Luck, 1938
• The Hidden Valley, 1938
• Enchanting Jenny Lind, 1939
• Roxana Rampant, 1940
• Young Edgar Allan Poe, 1941
• Come Slowly, Eden, 1942
• Washington Irving: Explorer of American Legend, 1944
• Is Morning Sure?, 1947
• Thackeray of the Great Heart and Humorous Pen, 1947
• Barnum's First Circus and Other Stories, 1949
• Famous American Poets, 1950
• Coleridge: Poet of Wild Enchantment, 1952
• Stanley: Invincible Explorer, 1955
• In Love With Time: Poems, 1959
• Famous American Humorists, 1959
• Famous Poets for Young People, 1964
• Horseshoe Nails, 1965
• Famous English and American Essayists, 1966
• Famous Biographies for Young People, 1966
• Washington Irving: Explorer Of American Legend, 1966
• Famous New England Authors, 1970
• The Mystery of Emily Dickinson, 1973
• Bridge of a Single Hair: A Book of Poems, 1974
• When William Rose, Stephen Vincent, and I Were Young, 1976

Notes

References

• Scanlon, Jennifer & Cosner, Shaaron (1996). American Women Historians, 1700s–1990s: A Biographical Dictionary. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press.
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