An account of Karle Wilson Baker, a Texas poet of the early twentieth century, and a multi-talented writer. Her life also opens a window onto the literary times in which she lived and the path of a woman making her way in the largely male-dominated world of nationally acclaimed writers.
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Texas Woman of Letters: Karle Wilson Baker. By Sarah Ragland Jackson. (College. Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005. Pp. 256. Series editors foreword ...
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 | 4745 East Third St., Long Beach, California - Page 123 |
| Nacogdoches - Page 109was delighted with the article on Nacogdoches and thanked Baker for sending Charlotte's pictures as suggested illustrations to accompany the article. ...more pages: xiii 54 |
| Natchitoches, Louisiana - Page 200Henry Research Center in Natchitoches. 169. TWB suggested the Melrose connection to the author on July 29, 1997. CBM spoke of the Melrose visit in an ...more pages: 68 142 |
More | Little Rock - Page 186While Karle was teaching in Little Rock, he tried to renew the relationship, but by that time she was no longer interested and never answered his ...more pages: xi 3 |
| Dallas - Page 59Under his direction, the Texas Review moved from Austin and the University of Texas to Dallas and Southern Methodist University. ...more pages: 130 195 |
| Austin - Page 134Why Houston hated and Austin trusted him, concerns the reader hardly so much as the part he played in Jessies and others' lives, occupied with matters ...more pages: 59 169 |
| Charlotte - Page 195Tomby and Charlotte had completed their sophomore year at Berkeley. Before KWB returned to Nacogdoches, she arranged for Charlotte to transfer to ...more pages: 61 193 |
| Houston - Page 49She came to this city from Houston where she read Tuesday night before the YWCA On May 11 she will read before Baylor College for Women at Belton. ...more pages: 130 203 |
| Spanish Town - Page 110The drawing was intended for use with Karle Wilson Baker's article, "Nacogdoches: The Indian and Spanish Town," that appeared in the October 1935 ...more pages: ix 202 |
| San Antonio - Page 157Instead, the novelist places in sharp new focus such turning points as the capture of San Antonio by the Texans late in 1835, the wiping out of the ...more pages: 185 209 |
| Fort Worth - Page 73yet somehow native and familiar there is always some uncaptured marvel.88 Rebecca Smith, a professor at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth and ...more pages: 102 169 |
| New York City - Page 104The object of the club was to provide a gathering place in New York City where members could meet and exchange ideas. ...more pages: 130 155 |
| Berkeley - Page 195Tomby and Charlotte had completed their sophomore year at Berkeley. Before KWB returned to Nacogdoches, she arranged for Charlotte to transfer to ...more pages: 62 67 |
| Mexico City - Page 204In the fall of 1999, CBM provided mean itinerary of the trip: they stayed at the Hotel Regis in Mexico City, then went to the Hotel Monte Carlo, ...more pages: 118 140 |
| Waco - Page 98He also asked her to stay an extra day in Waco to have her photograph made with a group of Sigma Tau Delta English fraternity members to include in ...more pages: xvi 99 |
| Belton, Texas - Page 176dedicated its yearbook to Baker and entered photographs and memorabilia about her in their newly established Poet's Hall of Fame in Belton, Texas. ... |
| Chicago - Page 200Dobbs addressed the letter to Charlotte Baker Paine in Chicago. Charlotte and her first husband, Henry Paine, were married for only a short time ...more pages: 7 33 |
| Rusk, Texas - Page 124Photograph of men on the derrick floor of the oil well Crantill-Germany #1, two miles east of Rusk, Texas. Karle Wilson Baker describes both the ...more pages: 12 |
| New Orleans - Page 207done on horseback, and they will go fifty miles to a ball with their silk dresses, made perhaps in Philadelphia or New Orleans, in their saddlebags. ...more pages: 149 201 |
| Amarillo - Page 49Worth Friday night for Amarillo where she talked before the Panhandle Penwomen Saturday afternoon and read from her poems under the auspices of that ... |
| Kilgore, Texas - Page 120Kilgore, Texas, the setting for the novel, was the quintessential boomtown. Baker describes the town in Family Style as a place of congested ...more pages: 95 |
| North Tarrytown, NY - Page 187CBM has shared with the author photographs of the honeymoon trip showing KWB on the "Sleepy Hollow Bridge" (North Tarrytown, NY) where the headless ... |
| Longview - Page 104Tom and Charlotte met her train in Longview on November vj.109 To Baker's disappointment, she received a letter from Appleton-Century declining ...more pages: 92 |
| Mt. Vernon, Virginia - Page 187across the street from where President Lincoln was shot at Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC; and pictures of Mt. Vernon, Virginia, and Niagara Falls. ... |
| Lufkin - Page 200CBM s oil field watercolors and drawings are housed at the Museum of East Texas in Lufkin. 162. KWB Papers, box 38/31. She used Mexico as a resource ...more pages: 29 |
| Washington, DC - Page 187KWB at the house across the street from where President Lincoln was shot at Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC; and pictures of Mt. ...more pages: 104 |
| Cincinnati - Page 134The action of Star of the Wilderness moves from Cincinnati to the Heights of Chapultapec, pausing to look down the Texas Trace from the bluffs of ... |
| Gallup, New Mexico - Page 62Baker sent a telegram from Gallup, New Mexico, to her husband on December 15, 1926: "Were held up here all day by road conditions and necessity of ... |
| Philadelphia - Page 207done on horseback, and they will go fifty miles to a ball with their silk dresses, made perhaps in Philadelphia or New Orleans, in their saddlebags. ...more pages: 159 |
| San Marcos, Texas - Page 198KWB to WH Vann, September 16, 1936, South West Texas State University Archive, San Marcos, Texas (now Texas State University). ...more pages: 203 |
| Nashville, Tennessee - Page 196Bess and Ben Wilson were moving to Nashville, Tennessee. Ben T. sold the Ford agency and hoped to gain his fortune in the stock market. ... |
| Jacksonville, Texas - Page 204They left Mexico City and went to Queretaco and traveled by train back to Jacksonville, Texas, arriving on August 24. ... |
| Guadalajara - Page 151met Charlotte and their friend Elizabeth Tucker in Guadalajara. Bakers adventuresome temperament led her and Charlotte to hire a taxi to take them to ... |
| Victoria, Texas - Page 140She also made trips to Victoria, Texas, exploring the locale and talking with the relatives of Don Placido Benavides upon whom another character in ... |
| Oregon, Illinois - Page 105afraid to take a chance on the sales.210 Baker had sent a manuscript copy of "Family Style" to her friend Anna McCaleb Sheets in Oregon, Illinois. ...more pages: 68 |
| Natchez, Mississippi - Page 131Later that summer, she and Charlotte spent five days in Natchez, Mississippi, gathering more information for Star of the Wilderness.7 Baker recorded ...more pages: 231 |
| Temple, Texas - Page 8940 In a letter to a study club in Temple, Texas, where she was scheduled to speak on Family Style, she commented on the importance of both accuracy in ...more pages: 125 |
| Joaquin, Texas - Page 125it will find me still trying.68 She also comments that during the writing of the letter her husband received a telephone message from Joaquin, Texas, ... |
| New Haven - Page 180Denver, Seattle and Calumet, Natchez, New Haven and Laramie Go on with your lumbering lure, and let A poor philosopher be! ... |
| Laramie - Page 180Denver, Seattle and Calumet, Natchez, New Haven and Laramie Go on with your lumbering lure, and let A poor philosopher be! ... |
| Concord, New Hampshire - Page 190 |
| Alto, Texas - Page 125The hostess for a club in the village of Alto, Texas, wrote, "My husband and I'd like for you and Mr. Baker to come by our house and go on to the club ... |
| Oakland, California - Page 195Before KWB returned to Nacogdoches, she arranged for Charlotte to transfer to Mills College (an all-female school) in Oakland, California, because it ... |
| Ypsilanti - Page 180Wichita, Bangor, and San Jose, Ypsilanti and Monterey They flutter my peace like the tang of spray! From high dream-pastures homing down To the fold ... |
| St. Louis - Page 104DC After a day of sight-seeing, she resumed her train travel to St. Louis, where she stayed overnight with her half-sister, Bess Wright. ...more pages: 64 |
| Memphis, Tennessee - Page 96The program required travel by train to Memphis, Tennessee, to speak before the National Council of Teachers of English, an event that took place over ...more pages: 98 |
| Wellesley, Massachusetts - Page 64This time she traveled by train to Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Katherine Lee Bates, professor emeritus at Wellesley and the author ... |
| Amherst, Massachusetts - Page 100than a year after the visit she wrote to Baker requesting some of her poetry to present in a program for her study club in Amherst, Massachusetts. ... |
| Monterey - Page 180Wichita, Bangor, and San Jose, Ypsilanti and Monterey They flutter my peace like the tang of spray! From high dream-pastures homing down To the fold ... |
| Queretaro - Page 151Bakers adventuresome temperament led her and Charlotte to hire a taxi to take them to Chapala, Guanajuato, and Queretaro. ... |
| Indianapolis - Page 155 |
| Bristol, Virginia - Page 5she left the university in the Fall of 1897 to teach at the Southwest Virginia Institute, a school for young women in Bristol, Virginia. ... |
| Huntsville - Page 100Baker and her brother took the Frosts by car to Huntsville where Frost continued his successful lecture tour at Sam Houston college.1''" Elinor Frost ... |
| Shreveport - Page 99Baker attended bank meetings in Shreveport and Dallas about the problem. On March 12, the Bakers listened on the radio to the president's speech about ... |
| Bellingham, Washington - Page 190 |
| Eureka Springs, Arkansas - Page 20Baker also recalled an unpleasant incident on the road when the two families vacationed in Eureka Springs, Arkansas (about 1917). ... |
| Boston - Page 64During Baker's visit she took a tour of Boston and Harvard University, and Bates took her on a special trip to Longfellow's Wayside Inn.55 Baker ... |
| Niagara Falls, New York - Page 14In fact, after their wedding on August 8, the young couple had plans to honeymoon at Niagara Falls, New York.44 The newlyweds must have mutually ... |
| Monterrey - Page 140In Monterrey, she tried to find relatives of Dona Guadalupa, Grants wife. Baker traveled to New Orleans to locate and interview great-grandchildren of ... |
| Arkadelphia, Arkansas - Page 5But her greatest pleasures were reading, writing, and taking long walks.8 In 1895, Karle attended Ouachita Baptist College in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. ... |
| College Station - Page 101In October alone, she received letters from groups in Dallas, Marshall, Gilmer, and College Station.193 The Texas Federation of Women's Clubs made ... |
| Jacksonville - Page 99April 26, the Frosts left Austin by train for Jacksonville, where at four o'clock in the afternoon Karle Wilson Baker and her brother, Ben T. ... |
| Center, Texas - Page 172 |
| Atlanta, Georgia - Page 661928, making a stop in Atlanta, Georgia, to speak on November 12 at Agnes Scott College, where she read selections from Moody's works as well as some ...more pages: 225 |
| Portland, Oregon - Page 162After Baker made revisions, Charlotte took up the cause in 1948 from her home in Portland, Oregon, submitting the manuscript to Farrar, Straus, ... |
| St. Paul, Minnesota - Page 156Lots and lots of love, Flo/9 A fellow novelist and member of the Texas Institute of Letters, Laura Krey, wrote to Baker from St. Paul, Minnesota, "I ... |
| Denton, Texas - Page 217Denton, Texas: Center for Texas Studies, University of North Texas, 1994. Texas Poets: An Anthology of Verse of 83 Contemporary Poets. ... |
| Abilene - Page 98Vernon, Paris, Lufkin, and Abilene.173 Another significant speaking engagement occurred in December 1932. Baker accepted an invitation from AJ ... |
| Colorado Springs, Colorado - Page 9August of that year, she went farther afield and traveled with her half-sister Bess and Bess' husband, Maurice Wright, to Colorado Springs, Colorado. ... |
| Corpus Christi, Texas - Page 164You Want to Write" for the annual Southwest Writer's Conference held in Corpus Christi, Texas, which she attended for ten years, from 1944 to 1954. ... |
| East Aurora, NY - Page 217East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters Publishing Company, 1924. Southern Poetry. Edited by BD Taylor. Livingston, Texas: Enterprise Printing, 1922. ... |
| Port Bolivar, Texas - Page 232104 "Poet Songs" (Baker), 27, 1890 17 "The Porch Swing" (Baker), 49 Port Bolivar, Texas, n Pritchett, Ida, 53, 131 Prominent Women of Texas (Brooks), ... |
| New London, Texas - Page 232and Family Style, 95, 105, 120-29; New London, Texas School explosion, 1O5, 2O1-20 212 Old Coins (Baker): KWB's doubts about, 48; marketing of, 32-34, ... |
| Piedras - Page 1381, Piedras draws up his men east of town to defend Eastern suburbs. In the level, wooded creek bottom, on eastern bank. About 9 o'clock Americans ...more pages: 113 161 |
| Banita - Page 12Have you ever stood at the junction of LaNana and Banita on a spring afternoon, and turned the clock of your mind backward for two hundred years, ... |
| Bolton - Page 15He also recommended the text by Bolton and Barker, With the Makers of Texas, and Henderson Yoakum's two volumes on the history of Texas. ... |
| Bristol - Page 5In September 1898, she returned again to Bristol for a second year of teaching. She saved enough money to return to the university in the summer of ... |
| Leipzig - Page 118having lost his original diary, rewrote the story of his experiences from memory, in German, and published the book in Leipzig in 1843. ... |
Popular passagesTO-DAY I have grown taller from walking with the trees, The seven sister-poplars who go softly in a line; And I think my heart is whiter for its parley with a star That trembled out at nightfall and hung above the pine. The call-note of a redbird from the cedars in the dusk Woke his happy mate within me to an answer free and fine ; And a sudden angel beckoned from a column of blue smoke Lord, who am I that they should stoop these holy folk of thine? Page 43 A LITTLE BOY'S BATH YOU would have thought he never would come clean, Yet here he is, shining like a sea-shell. O Life, thou secret-hearted, ancient mother, Teach him the hidden paths to thy rock-fountains, Make them plain to his feet, And for the insult of thy deep pollutions, The dust, and sweaty grime, and clinging foulness, Give him to know thy laughing water-courses, And the clean brown pools Among the rocks. I, his mother, have jealously kept his firm, small body: Keep thou his soul, O Life... Page 179 THE men who made Texas Rode west with dazzled eyes On the hot trail of the Future, To take her by surprise : They were dreamers on horseback, Dreamers with strong hands, Trailing the golden Lion Who couches in far lands : Old men and young men, little men and tall, Bad men and good men but strong men, all. The women who bore Texas Could see beyond the sun : They sat on cabin doorsteps When the long day was done, And they crooned to lusty babies, But their look was far away For they gazed... Page 49 Dropp'd feathers from the wings of God My little songs and snatches are, So light He does not hear them fall As He goes by, from star to star. Dropp'd feathers from the wings of God I find, and braid them in my hair; Men heed them not they only make My soul unto herself more fair. Page 27 Old men and young men, little men and tall, Bad men and good men but strong men, all. The women who bore Texas Could see beyond the sun: They sat on cabin doorsteps When the long day was done, And they crooned to lusty babies, But their look was far away- For they gazed straight through the sunset To the unborn day. Stern women, laughing women, women stout or small, Bronzed women, broken women brave women, all. The men who made Texas Laughed at fate and doom Dreamers on horseback,... Page 181 MY little daughter is a tea-rose, Satin to the touch, Wine to the lips, And a faint, delirious perfume. But my little son Is a June apple, Firm and cool, And scornful of too much sweetness, But full of tang and flavor And better than bread to the hungry. O wild winds and clumsy, pilfering bees, With the whole world to be wanton in, Will you not spare my little tea-rose? And O ruthless blind creatures, Who lay eggs of evil at the core of life, Pass by my one red apple, That is so firm and sound! Page 28 Let me grow lovely, growing old So many fine things do: Laces, and ivory, and gold, And silks need not be new; ' And there is healing in old trees, Old streets in glamour hold; Why may not I, as well as these, Grow lovely, growing old? Page 175 Alone on the hill where the sun goes down I plunder the earth from my little town; But the spoils I bring in my fairy sack Are scattered and spilled on the railroad track. . . . For there, on the siding, the box-cars doze, And this is the way their dreaming goes: 'Sault Sainte-Marie and Chicopee, Miami and San Antonio - ' They call like a lover's song to me, Call, and I want to go! Santa Fe, Norfolk and Kalamazoo, Sacramento, Mobile, Peru How, do you think, you could tamely bide In the one small... Page 179 ... They touch strange, buried, dispossessed old dreams. And while her hand plays with the baby's curls Unthinking, once again she sees the face That swayed her youth as ocean tides are swayed Until she broke her heart to save her soul . . . And fled back to her native town . . . and left In the grey canyons of the city streets All the high hopes of youth. . . . She has picked up Her life since then, and made a goodly thing Out of the fragments; that is written plain Upon the simple page for all... Page 178 I love the friendly faces of old Sorrows; I have no secrets that they do not know. They are so old, I think they have forgotten What bitter words were spoken, long ago. I hate the cold, stern faces of new Sorrows Who stand and watch, and catch me all alone. I should be braver if I could remember How different the older ones have grown. Baker also considered her group of six short lyrics, "Songs From a Still Place, Page 80 LessOther editions | by Sarah R. Jackson
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