Mary Elizabeth Haskell, later Minis (December 11, 1873 – October 9, 1964), was an American educator, best known for having been the benefactress of Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist
Kahlil Gibran.
Life
Haskell was born in
Columbia, South Carolina, to
Alexander Cheves Haskell
Alexander Cheves Haskell (September 22, 1839 – April 13, 1910) was a Colonel in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War and a Democratic politician in postbellum South Carolina.
Early life
Haskell was born in Abbeville Coun ...
and his second wife Alice Van Yeveren (Alexander, sister of
Edward Porter Alexander).
[.] She was educated at the Presbyterian College for women, Columbia, South Carolina, and
Wellesley College
Wellesley College is a private women's liberal arts college in Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1870 by Henry and Pauline Durant as a female seminary, it is a member of the original Seven Sisters Colleges, an unofficial g ...
, Massachusetts, A.B., 1897.
In 1904, she met
Kahlil Gibran at an exhibition of his work at
Fred Holland Day's studio.
She was then the principal of a private school for girls in
Boston, known as Miss Haskell's School for Girls.
[https://www.historicnewengland.org/explore/collections-access/gusn/196406/] She taught here, along with her elder sister Louise Porter Haskell. In 1918, this school merged with
The Cambridge School of Weston.
On May 7, 1926, she married Jacob Florance Minis (1852–1936), whose first wife had died in 1921.
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External links
The Kahlil Gibran Collective
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1873 births
1964 deaths
People from Columbia, South Carolina
Wellesley College alumni