Theodosia Pickering Garrison

Theodosia Pickering Garrison Faulks (January 1, 1874 – October 9, 1944) was an American poet, who published frequently in popular magazines from the 1890s into the 1920s.

Early life

Pickering was born in Newark, New Jersey, the daughter of Silas Wright Pickering and Annie Bedell Pickering. She began writing poetry in childhood.

Career

From the 1890s into the 1920s, Garrison published dozens of poems and stories in popular periodicals, including Harper's Magazine, Munsey's Magazine, Cosmopolitan, and The Smart Set. "People read it as an olive is eaten, something neither nourishing nor necessary," she told The New York Times in 1905, of magazine poetry, "just a flavor between the courses." Six of her poems were included in The Haunted Hour (1920), an anthology of spooky poetry edited by Margaret Widdemer.

In 1900, a one-act play by Linton Tedford, Hearts and Flowers, was based on a Garrison story, "The Eleventh Hour", without her permission. In 1905, an imposter claiming to be Garrison attended social events in Buffalo.

Publications

"October" and "A Rainy Day" (1899, Munsey's)

"A Holiday" (1899, The New England Magazine)

"A Petition" (1900, Scribner's)

"A Song of Kamal" and "Let Me Forget" (1900, Cosmopolitan)

"Loss" and "The Last Night" (1900, Munsey's)

"The Changeling" and "Felicity" (1901, Munsey's)

"Two Visions" (1901, Lippincott's)

"In Hawthorne Time" and "The Lass That Loved a Sailor" (1901, National Magazine)

"Remember!" (1902, National Magazine)

"The Failure" (1903, story, Harper's)

"The Daughter" (1907, McClure's)