Cynthia Morgan St. John

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St. John collected the largest Wordsworth library in the U.S., and probably the largest in the world in its day. The library contained all the regular editions, the complete U.S. editions of the poetry, autograph letters, prints, portraits, sketches and relics associated with the poet. In 1883, St

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and saw every place associated with Wordsworth from his birth to his death, and alluded to in his poems. One result of that visit was a "Wordsworth Floral Album", the flowers, ferns and grasses in which were gathered by her own hand. The chief publication of her lifelong study of the poet was her

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She was interested in Biblical study, missionary work (home and foreign), and work among the poor. She was against woman suffrage. In religion, she was a Congregationalist. In politics, she was a Republican. St. John was a member of the Bibliophile Society of

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She was president of a Working Girls' Union and gave her sympathies, her time and her writing to forward that cause. She frequently contributed articles upon religious, benevolent or educational subjects to the religious press, in particular to the

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Her one preeminent interest in a literary way was Wordsworthian. She was a member of the English Wordsworth Society and was a contributor to its meetings. In that way, she formed friendships with prominent Wordsworthians, among whom was Prof.

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In 1924, Cornell University Library received an aggregation of Ithaca imprints and books about Ithaca, together with several written by Ithaca authors, a gift of St. John.

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A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life

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On June 25, 1883, she married Henry Ancel St. John. in his early career, he was a civil engineer, the designer and builder of the

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Woman's Who's who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, 1914–1915

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Courts and Lawyers of New York: A History 1609–1925. By Alden Chester. In Collaboration with E. Melvin Williams

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She was educated in a small private school, with private teachers, and lectures in

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Wordsworth for the Young, with an introduction for parents and teachers

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physician, and Anne Bruyn Morgan, Her maternal grandfather was Judge

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