Theodosia Garrison

Theodosia Garrison
Theodosia Garrison, from a 1901 publication
Born
Theodosia Pickering

(1874-01-01)January 1, 1874
Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
DiedOctober 9, 1944(1944-10-09) (aged 70)
Short Hills, New Jersey, U.S.
Other namesTheodosia Faulks
OccupationPoet

Theodosia Pickering Garrison Faulks (January 1, 1874 – October 9, 1944) was an American poet, who published frequently in popular magazines from the 1890s into the 1920s.

Early life

Pickering was born in Newark, New Jersey, the daughter of Silas Wright Pickering and Annie Bedell Pickering.[1][2] She began writing poetry in childhood.[3][4]

Career

From the 1890s into the 1920s, Garrison published dozens of poems and stories in popular periodicals,[5] including Harper's Magazine, Munsey's Magazine, Cosmopolitan, and The Smart Set. "People read it as an olive is eaten, something neither nourishing nor necessary," she told The New York Times in 1905, of magazine poetry, "just a flavor between the courses."[6] Six of her poems were included in The Haunted Hour (1920), an anthology of spooky poetry edited by Margaret Widdemer.[7]

In 1900, a one-act play by Linton Tedford, Hearts and Flowers, was based on a Garrison story, "The Eleventh Hour", without her permission.[8][9] In 1905, an imposter claiming to be Garrison attended social events in Buffalo.[10]

Publications

  • "October" and "A Rainy Day" (1899, Munsey's)[11][12]
  • "A Holiday" (1899, The New England Magazine)[13]
  • "A Petition" (1900, Scribner's)[14]
  • "A Song of Kamal" and "Let Me Forget" (1900, Cosmopolitan)[15][16]
  • "Loss" and "The Last Night" (1900, Munsey's)[17][18]
  • "The Changeling" and "Felicity" (1901, Munsey's)[19][20]
  • "Two Visions" (1901, Lippincott's)[21]
  • "In Hawthorne Time" and "The Lass That Loved a Sailor" (1901, National Magazine)[22][23]
  • "Remember!" (1902, National Magazine)[24]
  • "The Failure" (1903, story, Harper's)
  • "The Daughter" (1907, McClure's)[25]
  • "The Call of Home" (1908, McClure's)[26]
  • The Joy o' Life and Other Poems (1908)[27]
  • The Earth Cry and Other Poems (1910)[28]
  • "The Neighbors" (1910, McClure's)[29]
  • "Friends" (1910)[30]
  • "The Laying of the Monster" (1910, story, Everybody's)[31]
  • "The Day of Reckoning" (1911, Cavalier)[32]
  • "Woman" (1912)[33]
  • "Sheila" (1917)[34]
  • "These Shall Prevail" (1917)
  • "April 2nd" and "A Lesson in Manners" (1917, Fifes and Drums)
  • The Dreamers and Other Poems (1917)[35]
  • Et in Arcadia Ego (1906, 1917)[36]
  • "The Windows" (1918, Poetry)[37]
  • "The Neighbors", "A Ballad of Hallowe'en", "Two Brothers" "The Child", "The Three Ghosts", and "The Victor" (1920)[7]
  • "The House in Order" (1920, Red Cross Magazine)[38]
  • As the Larks Rise (1921)[39]
  • "Friends in Fiction" (1921, Sewanee Review)[40]
  • "A Prayer for Children" (1924, Journal of Education)[41]
  • "A Litany" (1925, Friends' Intelligencer)[42]
  • "Melchior, Gaspar, Balthazar" (hymn)[43]

Personal life

Pickering married lawyer Joseph Garrison in 1898.[1] He died in 1910.[44] Her second husband was another lawyer, Frederic J. Faulks; they married in 1911. She died in 1944, at the age of 70, at her home in the Short Hills section of Millburn, New Jersey.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b "Theodosia Pickering Garrison". The Buffalo News. July 1, 1904. p. 11. Retrieved October 11, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ Goodale, George Pomeroy (January 19, 1908). "Kaleidoscope". Detroit Free Press. p. 47. Retrieved October 11, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ Crowell, Bertha C. (April 22, 1903). "Theodosia Garrison". Boston Evening Transcript. p. 19. Retrieved October 11, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ a b "Mrs. F. J. Faulks, Writer of Verse; Widow of Newark Lawyer Is Dead--Used Pen Name of Theodosia Garrison". The New York Times. October 10, 1944. p. 23. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 11, 2025.
  5. ^ "Sympathy the Key Note; Theodosia Garrison's Verses Have Delighted Magazine Readers". The Minneapolis Journal. June 2, 1910. p. 10. Retrieved October 11, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Theodosia Garrison on Magazine Poets and Poetry". The New York Times. May 28, 1905. p. 37. Retrieved October 11, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ a b Widdemer, Margaret. The Haunted Hour: An Anthology (1920). Harcourt, Brace and Howe. ISBN 978-1-4219-6903-9.
  8. ^ "Tedford's Play Causes Comment; Rumors of Plagiarism Resulted from the Use of a Story". The Atlanta Constitution. August 2, 1900. p. 7. Retrieved October 11, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Tedford Play Causes Row; Theodosia Pickering Garrison Wants Royalty from 'Hearts and Flowers'". The Atlanta Journal. August 1, 1900. p. 6. Retrieved October 11, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Society Fondled Counterfeit 'Lion'". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. May 28, 1905. p. 5. Retrieved October 11, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ Garrison, Theodosia Pickering. "October" Munsey's Magazine 22(1)(October 1899): 42.
  12. ^ Garrison, Theodosia Pickering. "A Rainy Day" Munsey's Magazine 22(1)(October 1899): 60.
  13. ^ Garrison, Theodosia Pickering (August 1899). "A Holiday". The New England Magazine. 20 (6): 668.
  14. ^ Garrison, Theodosia Pickering (October 1900). "A Petition". Scribner's Magazine. 28 (4): 488.
  15. ^ Garrison, Theodosia Pickering. "Let Me Forget" The Cosmopolitan 29(1)(May 1900): 34.
  16. ^ Garrison, Theodosia Pickering. "A Song of Kamal" The Cosmopolitan 29(3)(July 1900): 304.
  17. ^ Garrison, Theodosia Pickering (October 1900). "Loss". Munsey's Magazine. 24 (1): 147.
  18. ^ Garrison, Theodosia Pickering (December 1900). "The Last Night". Munsey's Magazine. 24 (3): 411.
  19. ^ Garrison, Theodosia (February 1901). "The Changeling". Munsey's Magazine. 24 (5): 763.
  20. ^ Garrison, Theodosia (March 1901). "Felicity". Munsey's Magazine. 24 (6): 855.
  21. ^ Garrison, Theodosia Pickering (March 1901). "Two Visions". Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. 67 (399): 367.
  22. ^ Garrison, Theodosia Pickering (July 1901). "In Hawthorne Time". National Magazine. 14 (4): 380.
  23. ^ Garrison, Theodosia Pickering (November 1901). "The Lass Who Loved a Sailor". National Magazine. 15 (2): 223.
  24. ^ Garrison, Theodosia Pickering (September 1902). "Remember!". National Magazine. 16 (6): 721.
  25. ^ Garrison, Theodosia Pickering (January 12, 1907). "The Daughter". The Brattleboro New England Farmer. p. 13. Retrieved October 11, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  26. ^ Garrison, Theodosia (February 1908). "The Call of Home". McClure's Magazine. 30 (4): 408 – via Internet Archive.
  27. ^ Garrison, Theodosia (Pickering) (1909). The joy o' life, and other poems. University of California Libraries. New York, M. Kennerley.
  28. ^ Garrison, Theodosia Pickering (1910). The earth cry : and other poems. University of California Libraries. New York : M. Kinnerley.
  29. ^ Garrison, Theodosia (January 1910). "The Neighbors". McClure's Magazine. 34 (3): 338 – via Internet Archive.
  30. ^ Garrison, Theodosia Pickering. "Friends", in Ina Russelle Warren, A Book of Friendship (Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs and Company 1910): n.p.
  31. ^ Garrison, Theodosia Pickering. The Laying of the Monster. Project Gutenberg, 1997.
  32. ^ Garrison, Theodosia (May 1911). "The Day of Reckoning". Cavalier. 8 (4): 680 – via Internet Archive.
  33. ^ Garrison, Theodosia Pickering. "Woman", in Nina Isabel Jennings, ed., Woman: The Mysterious (Paris TX: Lone Star Publishers 1912): 33.
  34. ^ Garrison, Theodosia (June 1, 1917). Sheila. JSTOR. The Lotus Magazine.
  35. ^ Garrison, Theodosia Pickering (1917). The Dreamers: And Other Poems. George H. Doran Company.
  36. ^ Garrison, Mrs Theodosia Pickering (1917). Et in Arcadia ego. The Library of Congress. Chicago, Brothers of the book.
  37. ^ Garrison, Theodosia (1918). "The Windows". Poetry. 12 (5): 253–253. ISSN 0032-2032.
  38. ^ Garrison, Theodosia (February 1920). "The House in Order". The Red Cross Magazine. 25 (2): 5 – via Internet Archive.
  39. ^ Theodosia Garrison (1921). As The Larks Rise. Internet Archive. G.P. Putnams Sons New York and London – via Internet Archive.
  40. ^ Garrison, Theodosia (January 1, 1921). Friends in Fiction. JSTOR. The Sewanee Review.
  41. ^ Garrison, Theodosia (August 1, 1924). "A Prayer for Children". Journal of Education. 100 (7): 173–173. doi:10.1177/002205742410000702. ISSN 0022-0574.
  42. ^ Garrison, Theodosia Pickering (June 1925). "A Litany". Friends' Intelligencer. 82 (23): 443.
  43. ^ Garrison, Theodosia. "Melchior, Gaspar, Balthazar". Hymnary. Archived from the original on November 14, 2025. Retrieved October 10, 2025.
  44. ^ "Joseph Garrison, Lawer, Dies in Glen Ridge Home". The Star-Ledger. May 18, 1910. p. 3. Retrieved October 11, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
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