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Jeanne Robert Foster (née, Julia Elizabeth Oliver; March 10, 1879 – September 22, 1970) was an American occultist, Theosophist, and poet from the Adirondack Mountains. A disciple of Aleister Crowley , she was also known by the magical name Sister Hilarion .
Learn about the life and work of Jeanne Robert Foster, a poet, journalist, and model who was born and raised in the Adirondacks. Discover how she overcame hardship, achieved success, and expressed her love for the mountains in her writing.
The collection documents the career and life of American poet and social worker, Jeanne Robert Foster (1879-1970) through her correspondence with publishers, academics, friends and family. The papers also contain extensive unpublished poems and writings.
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When at eighteen she left the mountains to marry Matlack Foster, a businessman more than twenty-five years her senior, she took with her more than memories of meadows and streams, wildflowers and birdsongs.
Jeanne would become a respected journalist and poet, encouraged by both portrait artist John Butler Yeats and his son, the great poet William Butler Yeats. In 1916, Jeanne began to publish narrative verse about the Adirondacks, producing Neighbors of Yesterday and Wild Apples.
14. Juli 2021 · Born in 1879 in the small southern Adirondack town of Johnsburg, Foster was a model, actress, poet and journalist who became well known in literary circles during the first two decades...
22. Sept. 2022 · Foster, Jeanne Robert, 1879-1970. Publication date 2002 Topics Mountain life -- Poetry, Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.) -- Poetry Publisher West Cornwall, Conn. : Locust Hill Press Collection inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks Con ...
