Wiley, Sara King (1871-1909)

Title

Sara King Wiley

Author

Wiley, Sara King (1871-1909)

Date

1871-1909

Place of origin

East Orange

Country of origin

United States of America

Language

English

Profession

Playwright

Biographical details

She was born in East Orange, Essex County, New Jersey on 23 September 1871. She was the daughter of William Wiley and Joanna Clarke. Her father was an American Republican party politician as well as co-founder and former president of the publishing company John Wiley & Sons, which published works by authors such as Cooper, Emerson, Melville, and Poe

William H. Wiley, Wikipedia

She dedicated [...] to President Theodore Roosevelt who did not allow books to be dedicated to him, but, after coming to understand the work, he would like to meet with Sara King Wiley Drummond and her father.

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Sara King Wiley

She was married to Frederic L. Drummond.

She died at 37 years old, on 06 March 1909, before seeing her play published. According to the reviewer in the North American Review 'She purposed, we hear, another half-year's work which she would have smoothed the verse and eased the cadence and have simplified the somewhat elliptical and ambiguous constructions which here and there darken the limpid and melodious style".

The author was described as 'Eadiant and ardent, of unconquerable youth, she .of the vivid grace and fragile charm has passed, leaving the world poorer
and colder, because a poet, ever wielding the high calling with true and sustained reverence, can build no more the lofty rhyme for earthly ears'

Dante and Beatrice by Sara King Wiley, North American Review, Vol. 190, No. 648 (Nov., 1909), pp. 700-702

Selected publications

(1893). with William Wiley. The Yosemite, Alaska, and the Yellowstone. J. Wiley & sons, New York.

(1900). Poems, lyrical and dramatic; to which is added, Cromwell, an historical play. NewYork/London, George H. Richmond/ Chapman & Hall.

(1904). The football game: a comedy in one act. S. French. New York.

(1905). Alcestis : and other poems. Macmillan. New York, London.

(1907) The coming of Philibert. Macmillan. New York, London.

(1909). Dante and Beatrice. Macmillan and Co. New York, London.

Dante and Beatrice: a play in three acts and in verse