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Agnes Lee
Agnes Lee (née Martha Agnes Rand; 1862–1939) was an American poet and translator. BiographyLee was born Martha Agnes Rand in Chicago on March 6, 1862.[1][a] She was the second daughter of William H. Rand, an American printer and publisher who co-founded the Rand McNally Company.[2][3] She was educated at a boarding school in Vevey, Switzerland.[2] Lee wrote a collection of children's verse in 1898 titled The Round Rabbit.[2] Her debut poetry collection, The Legend of a Thought, was published in 1889.[2] She wrote books of poetry including The Border of the Lake in 1910, The Sharing in 1914, Faces and Open Doors in 1922, and New Lyrics and a Few Old Ones in 1931.[2][4] She translated Théophile Gautier's Enamels and Cameos and Other Poems in 1903.[2] In 1926, Lee received the guarantor's prize from Poetry Magazine.[2] _at_Graceland_Cemetery,_Chicago_2.jpg) In 1890 she married Francis Watts Lee, a photographer, and moved to Boston.[2] They had a daughter. In 1911 she married Otto Freer, a surgeon.[2] Her second husband died in 1932. Lee died from pneumonia on July 23, 1939, at her home in Chicago.[2] She was buried at Graceland Cemetery.[2][5] A collection of letters exchanged between her and poet Edgar Lee Masters is archived in the Newberry Library in Chicago.[2][6][7] NotesReferences
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