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Anne Bethel Spencer (born Bannister; February 6, 1882 – July 27, 1975) was an American poet, teacher, civil rights activist, librarian, and gardener. She was a prominent figure of the Harlem Renaissance, also known as the New Negro Movement, despite living in Virginia for most of her life, far from the center of the movement in New ...
- poetry
- Annie Bethel Bannister, February 6, 1882, Henry County, Virginia
Spencer’s poetry engages themes of religion, race, and the natural world. Thirty of her poems were published during her lifetime, in such anthologies as The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922) and Caroling Dusk (1927).
Harlem Renaissance poet Anne Spencer lived her entire life in Virginia, where she tended her garden, worked as a librarian and teacher, hosted luminaries of Black intellectual and cultural life, and fought for equal rights for African Americans.
Anne Spencer was a poet, civil rights advocate, teacher, librarian, wife, mother, and gardener. Most notably, Anne Spencer was an accomplished poet and figure of the Harlem Renaissance, the black literary and cultural movement of the 1920s, with over thirty poems published in her lifetime.
Anne Spencer, nacida Digby (hacia 1646-26 de abril de 1715), condesa de Sunderland, fue una aristócrata inglesa. Biografía. Anne fue hija de George Digby, II conde de Bristol, y Lady Anne Russell. Contrajo matrimonio el 10 de junio de 1665 con Robert Spencer, II conde de Sunderland, quien inicialmente había roto el compromiso con ella.
- 26 de abril de 1715
- Church of St Mary the Virgin, Great Brington
- años 1640
- George Digby, Anne Digby, Countess of Bristol
Spencer was the second African American and the first African American woman whose work was published in the Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry (W. W. Norton, 1973). Her work was also published posthumously in Time’s Unfading Garden: Anne Spencer’s Life and Poetry (Louisiana State University, 1977) by J. Lee Greene, a book that is now out of ...
13 de nov. de 2019 · Anne Spencer (born Annie Bethel Bannister; February 6, 1882 – July 27, 1975) was an American poet, teacher, librarian, gardener, and civil rights activist. She’s best remembered as an important figure of the Harlem Renaissance and as the second African-American poet to be included in the Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry.
