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Restoration of the Garden. In September 1983, eight years after Anne Spencer’s death, the Hillside Garden Club began the project of restoring the garden. The original garden, with young shrubs and trees, was open and sunny, with masses of flowers and grass paths. As the oak and cedar trees matured, they created a much shadier garden meaning ...
Follow these fascinating stories in this jewel in the crown of the Pierce Street neighborhood in Lynchburg, Virginia. *The house and museum will be closed November 1, 2023 through May 1, 2024 unless by special appointment*. Take a virtual tour. Book a tour today to discover the Anne Spencer House and Garden Museum in Lynchburg, VA.
Anne Spencer was born Anne Bethel Scales Bannister on February 6, 1882, on a plantation in Henry County, Virginia, to former slaves, Joel Cephus Bannister and Sarah Louise Scales, the daughter of a slaveholder. Spencer’s parents separated in the late 1880s. Her mother supported the family by working as an itinerant cook. Financial hardship ...
10. Aug. 2023 · Anne Spencer was a poet, a civil rights activist, a teacher, a librarian, and a gardener. While fewer than thirty of her poems were published in her lifetime, she was an important figure of the Black literary movement of the 1920s—the Harlem Renaissance—and only the second African American poet to be included in the Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry (1973).
24. Nov. 2019 · Anne Spencer, born Annie Bethel Bannister (February 6, 1882 – July 27, 1975), was a poet, teacher, librarian, gardener, and civil rights activist. In this sampling of poems by Anne Spencer, we experience her affinity for nature, love, and life itself. Anne Spencer was a prominent figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Her literary career began as ...
Anne Spencer, second daughter of the first Duke of Marlborough, became Countess of Sunderland after her marriage in 1700. She is noted for her great beauty and influence in politics, and between 1702 and 1712 she served as a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Anne. This half-bust is identifiable as Anne Spencer on the basis of similarities to Godfrey Kneller's painted portrait of her, which ...
Harlem Renaissance poet and activist Anne Bethel Scales Bannister Spencer was born on a Virginia farm in 1882. The daughter of former slaves, Spencer’s mother enrolled her in school for the first time when she was 11, at the Virginia Theological Seminary and College (now...
