J. P. Dabney

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Julia Parker Dabney
Born(1850-09-02)September 2, 1850
Fayal, Azores, Portugal
Died1932 (age 81-82)
NationalityAmerican

Julia Parker Dabney (1850 – 1932) was a Portuguese-born American writer and poet.

Biography[edit]

Julia Parker was the middle daughter of Mary Anne (Marianne) Dabney Parker and William Henry Dabney. Her father was the youngest son of American diplomat and wine merchant John Bass Dabney and his wife Roxa.[1][2] A member of one of the first Boston families to settle in the Azores as whaling and wine merchants and American diplomats, Julia was a descendant of Robert and Elizabeth D'Aubingé, French Huguenots who were early settlers in America in the early eighteenth century.[3]

Julia grew up in Teneriffe, Canary Islands, where her father was U.S. consul between 1862 and 1882. She was educated at home and studied art with several Spanish painters. In 1868 she studied in Boston under William Morris Hunt and Helen M. Knowlton.[3]

In 1873, Dabney moved to Boston where she was a painter and sculptor.[3] Due to ill health she abandoned her art, later turning to literature and poetry. She published several volumes of poetry, two novels (both set in the Canary Islands), and two plays. She also published short stories and poems in American periodicals.[3] In 1901 she was listed as an artist and novelist living in Brookline, Massachusetts.[4] She died in 1932.

Bibliography[edit]

  • Dabney, J. P. (Julia Parker) (1925), Waters of life : a drama in four acts, Torch Press, retrieved 28 June 2020
  • Dabney, J. P (1923). The Primal poet. Boston: Vedanta Centre. Retrieved 2020-06-27.
  • Dabney, Julia Parker (1907). Mademoiselle Merowska; a play in three acts. Brookline, Mass.: Priv. Print. Retrieved 2020-06-27.
  • Dabney, Julia Parker (1898). Songs of Destiny and Others. New York: E.P. Dutton.
  • Dabney, Julia Parker (1896). Little Daughter of the Sun. Boston: Roberts Bros.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Jarnagin, Laura (2008). A Confluence of Transatlantic Networks : Elites, Capitalism, and Confederate Migration to Brazil. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. pp. 83, 89. ISBN 978-0-8173-8040-3. OCLC 879947201.
  2. ^ Jones, George Farquhar (1884). Family Record of the Jones Family of Milford, Massachusetts, and Providence, Rhode Island: With Its Connections and Descendants, Together with the Ancestry and Family of Lorania Carrington Jones, Wife of George F. Jones. Higginson Book Company, LLC. p. 111.
  3. ^ a b c d "Page:The Biographical Dictionary of America, vol. 03.djvu/118 - Wikisource, the free online library". en.wikisource.org. Retrieved 2020-06-27.
  4. ^ Adams, Oscar Fay (2020) [1901]. DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN AUTHORS. [Place of publication not identified]: SALZWASSER-VERLAG GMBH. p. 472. ISBN 978-3-8460-4740-8. OCLC 1149165939.

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