2022-10-06 Guide to the Paula Bennett Transcriptions of Poetry by Sarah Piatt as Published in the Louisville Journal and New York Ledger in 1857-1861, circa 1990s SPEC.RARE.0022 Finding aid prepared by Lindsay Resnick Ohio State University Libraries Special Collections
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2022 September This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2024-03-19T10:27-0400 English Describing Archives: A Content Standard Paula Bennett Transcriptions of Poetry by Sarah Piatt as Published in the Louisville Journal and New York Ledger in 1857-1861 SPEC.RARE.0022 Ohio State University Libraries Special Collections 0.56 Cubic feet circa 1990s Paula Bernat Bennett (born 1936) is, as of 2018, Professor Emerita of English at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois. She is an expert on woman poets of the 19th century, with a particular interest in Sarah Piatt. Sarah (Sallie) Morgan Bryan Piatt (1836-1919) was an American poet from Kentucky. The Paula Bennett Transcriptions of Poetry by Sarah Piatt as Published in the Louisville Journal and New York Ledger in 1857-1861, dated circa 1990s, contains transcriptions of poems written by Piatt as a young woman, originally published in two newspapers between 1857 and 1861. (3) flat boxes English Bennett, Paula Arrangement of Materials

This collection is arranged in chronological order of original publication. Within each publication, the poems are also arranged in chronological order based on the date they were originally published.

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Donated by Paula Bernat Bennett, date unknown

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 Biographical Note

Paula Bernat Bennett (born 1936) is, as of 2018, Professor Emerita of English at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois. A native of Massachusetts, she earned her Bachelor's, Master's, and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University in New York City. She is an expert on woman poets of the 19th century, with a particular interest in Sarah Piatt.

Sarah (Sallie) Morgan Bryan Piatt (1836-1919) was an American poet from Kentucky. She was first published as a young woman under the name "Sallie M. Bryan" or "S.M.B." in the 1850s, and her first poetry book was published anonymously in 1871. She spent most of her adult life in North Bend, Ohio, near Cincinnati.

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The Paula Bennett Transcriptions of Poetry by Sarah Piatt as Published in the Louisville Journal and New York Ledger in 1857-1861, dated circa 1990s, contains transcriptions of poems written by Piatt as a young woman, originally published in two newspapers between 1857 and 1861. Paula Bennett and her graduate assistant, Pamela Isner-Kincheloe, transcribed these poems from microfilm around the 1990s. Later, Kyle Roberts and Mary Manning, employees of the Rare Books & Manuscripts Library at Ohio State University, proofed these transcripts and typed them up with their emendations indicated in red and green.

 Bennett, Paula Piatt, Sarah M. B. (Sarah Morgan Bryan), 1836-1919 American poetry--19th century Journal (Louisville, Ky.) New York ledger Transcriptions (documents) Women poets, American--19th century Transcriptions of poems from the Louisville Daily Journal originally printed 1854-1861, with Ohio State University emendations 2 1 circa 1990s Transcriptions of poems from the New York Ledger originally printed 1857-1860, with Ohio State University emendations 3 circa 1990s