Marion Juliet Mitchell (September 4, 1836 – January 30, 1917) was an American poet and educator. She received a thorough education, and inherited literary tastes from her parents. She contributed extensively both prose and verse to magazines and was the author of a volume of poems. Her poems appeared in several standard collections. Mitchell died in 1917.

Biography

Marion Juliet Mitchell was born in

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, September 4, 1836. Her father, Dr. John Mitchell, died in 1885), and her mother died in 1888. She went with her parents to

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, and the family settled in

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, which was then a small village. One of the best of her earlier poems, "My Grandmother's Home," is a memorial of several happy years which she passed in childhood with her grandparents, Hon. Isaac Lacey and wife, near

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. She attended school in Rochester, and went afterwards to the Ingham Collegiate Institute (later named

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), in

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. She finished with a thorough course at the

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, in

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. Mitchell inherited literary tastes from her parents. Most of her poetic work shows matured powers of imagination and expression. Quiet and domestic in her tastes, she cared little for what was generally termed society. She was surrounded by a circle of congenial friends, and her life was passed in good works and the reading of literature. The ''Mitchell Book of Poems'' was brought out by Mitchell and her father. Marion Juliet Mitchell died January 30, 1917, in Janesville, Wisconsin, and was buried in that city's Oak Hill Cemetery.

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Marion Juliet Mitchell's poetry
at ''The Magazine of Poetry and Literary Review''
Marion Juliet Mitchell's poetry
at ''The Poetical Works''
Marion Juliet Mitchell's poetry
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