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William Stanley Braithwaite Papers, Accession 8990-b, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library
Gift, 1985 Jul 3
Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
BIOGRAPHICAL CHRONOLOGY OF WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE |
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| 1875 | Marriage of William Stanley Braithwaite 's parents Emma DeWolfe (1860-1928) and William Smith Braithwaite (1853-1886) | |
| 1876 | Birth of William Stanley Braithwaite 's sister, Eva Braithwaite | |
| 1878 | Birth of William Stanley Braithwaite in Boston, Massachusetts on 6 December | |
| 1885 | Birth of a sister; she dies in 1894 | |
| 1886 | Death of William Stanley Braithwaite 's father | |
| 1889 | Map of Europe drawn by William Stanley Braithwaite is exhibited at the Paris fair | |
| 1890 | William Stanley Braithwaite , age 12, obtains first job (selling newspapers in Boston ) | |
| 1898 | William Stanley Braithwaite manages a Newport, Rhode Island bookstore | |
| 1901 | Publishes first novel, The Canadian, A Novel | |
| 1903 | Marries Emma Kelly on 30 June; seven children: Fiona Lydia Rossetti Braithwaite (Mrs. Merrill Carter ), Katherine Keats Braithwaite (Mrs. William J. Arnold ), William Stanley Braithwaite, Jr. , Edith Carman Braithwaite (Mrs. Agard), Paul Ledoux Braithwaite , Arnold DeWolfe Braithwaite , Francis Robinson Braithwaite | |
| 1904 | Publishes Lyrics of Life and Love | |
| 1906 | Edits The Book of Elizabethan Verse ; elected to the Boston Author's Club with the support of Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Julia Ward Howe ; begins writing for the Boston Evening Transcript on 14 February; he reviews American poetry and poets and writes essays | |
| 1907 | William Stanley Braithwaite poem "White Magic", honoring John Greenleaf Whittier , is read by Braithwaite at Faneuil Hall, Boston, Massachusetts on 17 December | |
| 1908 | Publishes The House of Falling Leaves ; writes an essay introduction for The Wounded Eros: Sonnets by Charles Gibson | |
| 1909 | Publishes poem "Sandy Star" in the July issue of Atlantic Monthly ; also edits The Book of Georgian Verse | |
| 1909-1910 | Plans "The Book of Victorian Verse" but it is never published | |
| 1910 | Edits The Book of Restoration Verse | |
| 1912-1914 | Sporadically publishes and edits Poetry Journal until it is taken over by others | |
| 1913-1929 | Edits Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry For The Year . . . until 1929 | |
| 1915 | William Stanley Braithwaite poem "The Mystery" is published in the October issue of Scribners ; literary criticism by Braithwaite is published in The Poetry Journal , "Poetry of The Public" ; he organizes the New England Poetry Club with Edward J. O'Brien | |
| 1916 | Edits Representative American Poetry with Henry Thomas Schittkind ; also edits The Poetic Year For 1916 and The Poets of The Future: A College Anthology of 1915/16 | |
| 1916-1917 | Edits The Stratford Monthly with Henry Thomas Schnittkind | |
| 1917 | Plans a book, "The Seven Wisdoms of Grainne" but does not complete it; accepts honorary membership in Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity | |
| 1918 | Awarded the Spingarn Medal, First Baptist Church , Providence, Rhode Island , during a meeting of the National Association For The Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) on 3 May for "distinguished achievement in literature"; edits The Golden Treasury of Magazine Verse ; awarded an honorary A. M. (Masters) degree from Atlanta University for his poetry and a Litt.D. from Talladega College ; writes introduction to The Heart of A Woman And Other Poems by Georgia D. Johnson | |
| 1919 | Publishes The Story of The Great War ; edits Victory! Celebrated By Thirty-eight American Poets ; literary criticism published in The Crisis , "Some Contemporary Poets of The Negro Race"; edits The Book of Modern British Verse | |
| 1920 | Publishes Our Essayists And Critics Today | |
| 1921 | Writes introduction to The Beggars' Vision by Brookes More ; publishes poetry volume, A Tale Of A Walled Town And Other Verses | |
| 1921-1927 | Founds and becomes editor-in-chief of B. J. Brimmer Publishing Company with Winifred Jackson as a partner and company treasurer; she buys the company in 1925, the same year of its bankruptcy(?) (Several documents in the collection indicate the company may have remained solvent until 1929.) | |
| 1922 | William Stanley Braithwaite edits Anthology of Massachusetts Poets ; B. J. Brimmer publishes Bronze: A Book of Verse by Georgia Douglas Johnson | |
| 1924 | B. J. Brimmer publishes Confusion by James Gould Cozzens ; William Stanley Braithwaite publishes "The New Negro In Literature" in The Crisis , and, Going Over Tindal, A Novel | |
| 1928 | Death of William Stanley Braithwaite 's mother; he publishes a book of stories, Frost On The Green Leaf | |
| 1931 | Edits Our Lady's Choir: A Contemporary Anthology of Verses By Catholic Sisters | |
| 1934 | Literary criticism, "The Novels of Jessie Faust," published in Opportunity | |
| 1934-1935 | Appointed Professor of Creative Literature at Atlanta University ; retires in 1945 | |
| 1935 | Alan F. Peter of the Poetry Digest Association plans a 1935 issue of Anthology of Magazine Verse and offers William Stanley Braithwaite the opportunity of providing editorial assistance | |
| 1936 | William Stanley Braithwaite writes introduction to We Lift Our Voices And Other Poems by Mae V. Cowdery | |
| 1937 | Sterling Brown , in Negro Poetry & Drama , praises William Stanley Braithwaite as a poetry critic | |
| 1938 | William Stanley Braithwaite serves on a program committee for the Association of Teachers of English in Negro Colleges (later The College Language Association ) | |
| 1939 | Death of William Stanley Braithwaite 's paternal uncle, Edward John Braithwaite , age 85, in September | |
| 1940 | William Stanley Braithwaite publishes The Years Between 1918-39 and Poems, New and Selected | |
| 1941-1942 | William Stanley Braithwaite 's autobiography, "The House Under Acturus" is serialized in five installments in Phylon during 1942; it tells the story of his life up to the publication of his first book of poems in 1904 | |
| 1942 | An M. A. thesis by Alma Westine Stone of Atlanta University examines William Stanley Braithwaite 's career | |
| 1945 | Retires from Atlanta University and moves to Harlem, New York City | |
| 1947 | Publishes an article in Negro Digest , "Negro America's First Magazine" | |
| 1948 | Publishes Selected Poems | |
| 1950 | Publishes The Bewitched Parsonage: The Story of The Brontes | |
| 1956 | Interviewed by Columbia University's Oral History Research Office from May to June: "The Reminiscences of William S. Braithwaite" | |
| 1957 | Literary criticism published in Phylon , "Alain Locke's Relationship To The Negro In American Literature"; death of William Stanley Braithwaite 's brother Arthur on 24 September | |
| 1958 | Co-edits 1958 Anthology of Magazine Verse with Margaret Carpenter , a Norfolk, Virginia , poet and admirer; it includes a selection of poetry from the previous anthologies; William Stanley Braithwaite 's efforts are hampered by his failing eyesight | |
| 1959 | An American Poetry Society dinner is held in William Stanley Braithwaite 's honor in New York City ; he writes the preface to A Voice In Ramah: Poems by Marion Buchman | |
| 1962 | Death of William Stanley Braithwaite , age 83, on 8 June in New York City ; funeral held on 12 June | |
[Includes form letter from Edmund Clarence Stedman ; a letter from William Stanley Braithwaite to a Mr. McCourtie, 9 January 1919, pertaining to a speaking engagement for the Poetry Society and mentions Lady Leonora Speyer . ]
[including 80th birthday congratulations from Mark Van Doren ]
[including copy of a Nicholas Vachel Lindsay letter 1917 January 1 re Birth of A Nation and Southern racism]
[Including a 1934 November 2 letter from W. E. B. Du Bois --attached to letter, 8 November 1934]
[Including proof of The Veiled Door by Caroline Giltinan (folder 1) and a typescript of "Since Cezanne" by Clive Bell ]