Maie Dove Day

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Maie Dove Day
Born
Maie Dove

November 25, 1847
DiedMarch 3, 1923(1923-03-03) (aged 75)
Resting placeGreen Hill Cemetery
OccupationWriter
SpouseWilliam Chilton Day

Maie Dove Day (November 25, 1847 – March 3, 1923) was an American author and poet in post-Civil War Virginia.

Early life and family[edit]

Maie Dove was born in 1847 in Richmond, Virginia, the daughter of Samuel E. Dove and Ann Eliza Ricks.[1][2]

In 1872, she married William Chilton Day, a former assistant surgeon in the Confederate States Army and president of the Virginia State Medical Association. Their family resided in Danville, Virginia.[1]

Adult life[edit]

Day authored several works which were published in the 1890s.[3][4] Her book of poetry The Blended Flags, written during the Spanish–American War, has remained in circulation and is in the permanent collection of the Library of Congress.[5][6]

Day was a charter member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and served as historian for the Danville chapter.[2][7] She was a delegate to the organizations' 21st continental congress in 1912.[8]

Day's works have been regarded by historians as an insight into post-Civil War southern womanhood.[9][5][10]

Published works[edit]

  • The Blended Flags (1898)[11][12][13]
  • Virginia. Prehistoric and Antebellum (1899)[14]
  • Uncle Yorke (1899)

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Tyler, Lyon Gardiner (1915). Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Under the Editorial Supervision of Lyon Gardiner Tyler. Lewis Historical Publishing Company.
  2. ^ a b Lineage Book of the Charter Members of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Daughters of the American Revolution. 1907.
  3. ^ Dewey, Melvil; Bowker, Richard Rogers; Pylodet, L.; Cutter, Charles Ammi; Weston, Bertine Emma; Brown, Karl; Wessells, Helen E. (1899). Library Journal. R. R. Bowker Company.
  4. ^ Catalogue of Title Entries of Books and Other Articles. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1899.
  5. ^ a b "The failure of reunion: The South and Republican foreign policy, 1898-1902 - ProQuest". www.proquest.com. Retrieved 2024-05-07.
  6. ^ Flora, Joseph M.; MacKethan, Lucinda Hardwick (2001-11-01). The Companion to Southern Literature: Themes, Genres, Places, People, Movements, and Motifs. LSU Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-2692-9.
  7. ^ Proceedings of the Virginia State Conference. 1911.
  8. ^ Proceedings of the Continental Congress of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. 1912.
  9. ^ "SOUTHERN WOMANHOOD, 1865-1920: AN INTELLECTUAL AND CULTURAL STUDY. - ProQuest". www.proquest.com. Retrieved 2024-05-07.
  10. ^ Alderman, Edwin Anderson; Harris, Joel Chandler; Kent, Charles W.; Smith, Charles Alphonso; Knight, Lucian Lamar; Metcalf, John Calvin (1970). Library of Southern Literature: Compiled Under the Direct Supervision of Southern Men of Letters. Johnson Reprint Corporation.
  11. ^ "Day, Maie Dove, Mrs | The Online Books Page". onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2024-05-07.
  12. ^ Clabough, Casey (2014). Women of War : Selected Memoirs, Poems, and Fiction by Virginia Women Who Lived Through the Civil War. College Station: Texas Review Press. ISBN 978-1-937875-50-3. OCLC 890072332.
  13. ^ Swem, Earl Gregg (1916). A Bibliography of Virginia ...: Titles of books in the Virginia State Library which relate to Virginia and Virginians, the titles of those books written by Virginians, and of those printed in Virginia, but not including ... published official documents. D. Bottom, Superintendent of Public Printing.
  14. ^ "Virginia. Prehistoric and Antebellum". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 2024-05-07.