Josephine Pollard (J. P. Pollard) (17 October 1834 – 15 August 1892) was an American hymn writer,[1] author and poet.
Pollard published over a hundred hymns,[2] and wrote numerous popular children's books mostly on religious and historical topics. She worked as an editor for the Sunday School Times and worked for the Methodist Book Concern, where she edited a magazine intended for African Americans.[3][4] Pollard also wrote for other children's magazines such as The Little Corporal.[5] Her poetry was published in a number of magazines including Harper's Magazine[6] and Scribner's Magazine,[7] as well as the New York Ledger.[8] Some of her children's poetry was collected in the book Elfin land published in 1882.[9]
In her children's books she neither talked over the child's head nor down to it in tones of condescension.[10] Her works have seen a recent resurgence as early readers, spurred by the home-school movement.[11]
Pollard was born in New York City one of seven children of architect Calvin Pollard and his wife Electra.[12] She attended the Spingler Institute, an exclusive girls' school.[8][13] Pollard was a lifelong member of the Presbyterian Church, and attended the North Presbyterian Church on Ninth Avenue.[3] She was a founding member of the professional women's club Sorosis.[14] She never married. Josephine Pollard died in New York City after a long illness on 15 August 1892.[3]
^Sanjek, Russell (1988). American Popular Music and Its Business: From 1790 to 1909. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 209. ISBN 978-0-19-504310-5.
^"Josephine Pollard". The Hymnary. Archived from the original on 24 January 2013.
^ abcStaff (16 August 1892). "Obituary: Josephine Pollard" (PDF). The New York Times. Archived from the original on 13 March 2016.
^Brown, John Howard, ed. (1903). Lamb's Biographical Dictionary of the United States, Volume 6, Newton-Sears. Boston, Massachusetts: Federal Book Company. p. 293. OCLC 2379256.
^Mott, Frank L. (1938). A History of American Magazines: 1865-1885. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 175, note 57. OCLC 791933312., reprinted in 1970, ISBN 978-0-674-39552-7
^Thompson, Slason, ed. (1892). The humbler poets: a collection of newspaper and periodical verse, 1870 to 1885. Chicago: A.C. McClurg. p. 175. OCLC 10737172., reprinted from the 1885 edition OCLC 4164623
^ abWillard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice, eds. (1897). American Women: Fifteen Hundred Biographies with Over 1,400 Portraits, Volume 2. New York: Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick. p. 578. OCLC 22177971.
^Pollard, Josephine (1882). Elfin Land. Satterlee, Walter (designer). New York: George W. Harlan & Co. OCLC 6638304.
^Hamrick, David Russell (14 February 2011). "Beyond the Sunset's Radiant Glow". Archived from the original on 15 August 2011.
^Pfitzer, Gregory M. "'History repeating itself': the republication phenomenon and Josephine Pollard's monosyllabic histories for children." 125th annual meeting of the American Historical Society (Boston, 6-9 Jan 2011). Abstract
^1850 and 1860 United States Census for New York City; note that Electra L. Pollard's name is variously misspelled in the census data as "Elector" and "Electa".
^The Spingler Institute was located off Union Square in New York City, run by Gorham Dummer Abbott, and was a continuation of the Abbott Institute formerly of East Houston Street, Greenwich Village.
^Croly, Jane Cunningham (1898). The history of the woman's club movement in America, Volume 1. New York: General Federation of Women's Clubs by H. G. Allen & Co. p. 18. OCLC 7178478.
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