Grace Fallow Norton (1876-1962) was an American poet whose work
came to prominence in the 1910s. Although presented in
superficially conservative forms and patterns of verse, her work
shows a willingness to engage with disturbing, challenging
subjects, including grief, war, politics and psychological
violence. Her work has long been neglected, although she is now
becoming more widely known for the series of poems which she wrote
at the opening of the First World War, and which appear in her
collection Roads (1916).
Norton was born and grew up in Northfield, Minnesota. Her
mother, Catherine Rich, was the widow of John Albert Scriver, who
owned the First National Bank of Northfield —the building famously
and fatally …
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Citation:
Hutchison, Hazel McNair. "Grace Fallow Norton". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 09 August 2013 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13253, accessed 22 November 2024.]
