NORA MAY FRENCH POETESS ENDS LIFE BY TAKING POISON

NEWSPAPERS.COM : San Francisco Chronicle Nora May French Poetess Ends Life

Nora had written a letter to her boyfriend after taking abortion pills... And this last poem was found in the pockets of some of  those who committed copycat suicides. Also discovered by the author, Catherine Prendergast, is that Nora once wrote a story about the inner feelings of a man who commit suicide, which was not published.

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ABORTION and the BOHEMIANS

 Did turn of the century men expect women to "get rid of it quietly?"

Nora May French was unmarried and twenty-six when she commit suicide. She had some expectation that she would marry but, if she was in an engagement, it was ended shortly before. She had two known abortions by that time.  I thought this video was on topic and would be of interest to my readers. - Missy 

READING THE POETRY OF NORA MAY FRENCH on PROJECT GUTENBERG

 Here's the link! PROJECT GUTENBERG : POETRY OF NORA MAY FRENCH

FROM forest paths we turned us, nymphs, new-made,

And, lifting eyes abashed with great desire

Before high Jove, the gift of souls we prayed.

Whereat he said: “O perfect as new leaves

New glossed and veined with blood of perfect days

And stirred to murmured speech in fragrant eves,

“Still ask ye souls? Behold, I give instead

Into each breast a bird with fettered wings,

A bird fast holden with a silken thread: ........

( read the whole poem at the link!)