Life-lore poems

Name/Title

Life-lore poems

Entry/Object ID

2015.1.7212

Tags

Library Rare books collection as of June 4 2023

Description

6 preliminary leaves, 3-161 pages : 20 cm Life lore poems by Luella Knott. Electronic copy from HathiTrust. Library copy: Inscribed by Luella Knott to Maud, 1925. Title page says 1912 published but verso of title page says 1911. Luella Knott lived in Jacksonville with her husband for a time-period but spent most of her years in Tallahassee. He was an accountant named, William V. Knott.Luella Knott and her husband purchased the Knott House in downtown Tallahassee in 1928. The house was constructed by enslaved craftspeople in the early 1840s, (possibly by George Proctor, a free black builder) and had several owners before the Knotts acquired it. Mrs. Knott graduated from college in 1891 and was part of the first generation of college-educated women, though she still held views typical of her time about married women. While she believed that married women should not work for pay unless the husband was injured or disabled, she did approve of women doing volunteer work to improve their community. She accepted that women had “‘intellectual gifts and capabilities. Like many middle and upper middle class women, Mrs. Knott engaged in social reform and she was active in Tallahassee’s temperance movement. She was deeply religious, and though she had some reservations about assuming a public role, she believed that “drinking was the work of the devil” and felt a duty to oppose alcohol consumption. This led to Mrs. Knott helping to organize and lead a Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) temperance parade the day before Leon County voted to go dry in 1904. Mrs. Knott was a musician, an advocate for social causes, and—as the Knott House clearly demonstrates—a poet. Mrs. Knott adorned the home’s Victorian-era furnishings with her poems that blended history and moral lessons with charm and wit. Stop by "The House That Rhymes" to learn more about Luella Knott’s life and times. from https://dos.myflorida.com/offices/historical-museums/united-connections/women-in-history/luella-knott/

Collection

Library

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

American poetry -- 20th century., American poetry -- Women authors., Knott, Luella, 1871-1965.

Publication Details

Author

Knott, Luella, 1871-1965

Publisher

Sherman, French & Company,

Place Published

* Untyped Place Published

Boston

Call No.

Rare Book PS 3521 .N67 L5 1911

LCCN

12005575