Olive Sanxay
Olive Sanxay | |
|---|---|
 Olive Sanxay, from a 1902 publication | |
| Born | June 1, 1873 |
| Died | October 11, 1965 (aged 92) Madison State Hospital, Madison, Indiana, U.S. |
| Other names | Olive Sanxey |
| Occupation | Writer |
Olive Sanxay (June 1, 1873 – October 11, 1965), also seen as Olive Sanxey, was an American poet and short story writer.
Early life[edit]
Sanxay was born in Ravenswood in Jefferson County, Indiana, the tenth and final child of Henry Campbell Sanxay and Sarah (Sally) Parker Stringfellow Sanxay.[1] She began to lose her hearing as a girl.[2] She graduated from Madison High School in 1890.[3][4] In 1895 she was admitted to the Indiana School for the Deaf.
Career[edit]
Sanxay taught at the Indiana State School for the Deaf,[5][6] and wrote stories and poems as a young woman.[7] Two of her poems, "Genius" and "Sabbath Chimes", were included in Poets and Poetry of Indiana (1900).[1] "A Summer Girl" appeared in Indiana Writers of Poems and Prose (1902).[8] She wrote poem, "The Dream and the Deed", for a 1907 ceremony at the school,[9] and it was included in the Indiana State School's annual report in 1908.[5] In 1918 one of her poems was included in the poem-a-day collection The Hoosier Year of 366 Indiana Writers and Speakers.[10] Other poems by Sanxay appeared in newspapers,[11] including the Indianapolis Star,[12] the Indianapolis Journal[13][14][15] and The Inter Ocean.[16] She also published at least one story, "Jim's Baby" (1899).[17]
Personal life[edit]
Sanxay was institutionalized at the Southeastern Indiana Hospital for the Insane (later Madison State Hospital) in Madison, Indiana,[18] for many years. She died there in 1965, aged 92 years.
References[edit]
- ^ a b Heiney, Enos Boyd (1900). Poets and Poetry of Indiana: A Representative Collection of the Poetry of Indiana During the First Hundred Years of Its History as Territory and State, 1800 to 1900. Silver, Burdett. pp. 134–135, 228–229, 454. ISBN 978-0-7222-0809-0.
- ^ Sanxay, Theodore F. (Theodore Frederic) (1907). The Sanxay family, and descendants of Rev. Jacques Sanxay, Huguenot refugee to England in sixteen hundred and eighty-five. The Library of Congress. New York, Printed for private use. p. 113.
- ^ "Madison High School Graduates 1862-95". Jefferson County history. Retrieved September 13, 2021.
- ^ "High School Commencement". Madison Daily Herald. May 28, 1890. p. 4. Retrieved September 13, 2021 – via NewspaperArchive.com.
- ^ a b Indiana State School for the Deaf (1908). Annual Report of the Trustees and the Superintendent for the Fiscal Year Ending ... to the Governor. The School. pp. 6, 37.
- ^ E. A. F (1907). "MISCELLANEOUS". American Annals of the Deaf. 52 (5): 491. ISSN 0002-726X. JSTOR 44464138.
- ^ "Local Poets of Madison". Madison Daily Herald. February 2, 1916. p. 4. Retrieved September 13, 2021 – via NewspaperArchive.com.
- ^ Hamilton, Edward Joseph (1902). Indiana Writers of Poems and Prose. Western Press Association.
- ^ "Governor Presides at Cornerstone Laying". The Indianapolis News. May 31, 1907. p. 16. Retrieved September 13, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Dunn, Catherine T.; Parmenter, Carey, Angeline (1916). The Hoosier Year of 366 Indiana Writers and Speakers. M. R. Hyman. p. 134.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Sanxay, Olive (June 10, 1899). "To My Mother". Atlanta Sunny South. p. 26. Retrieved September 13, 2021 – via NewspaperArchive.com.
- ^ Sanxay, Olive (August 20, 1907). "The Strikers". The Indianapolis Star. p. 8. Retrieved September 13, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Sanxay, Olive (March 25, 1900). "The Rhyme". The Indianapolis Journal. p. 13. Retrieved September 13, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Sanxay, Olive (September 10, 1899). "A Toast". The Indianapolis Journal. p. 16. Retrieved September 13, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Sanxay, Olive (March 29, 1903). "March Morning". The Indianapolis Journal. p. 32. Retrieved September 13, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Sanxay, Olive (April 5, 1896). "November Morning". The Inter Ocean. p. 37. Retrieved September 13, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Sanxay, Olive, "Jim's Baby" Indianapolis News (October 17, 1899): 10.
- ^ "Madison State Hospital - Asylum Projects". www.asylumprojects.org. Retrieved September 13, 2021.
External links[edit]
- Olive Sanxay, "Genius" (1900), reprinted in Francis M. Hutt, ed., Directions and Prospects for Educational Linguistics (Springer Science & Business Media 2010): 113. ISBN 9789048191369