Amy Lowell (Dictionary of World Biography: The 20th Century)
Early Life
Amy Lowell was a member of the Lowell family which arrived in America in 1639, twenty years after the arrival of the Mayflower, and rose to become one of the leading New England families. (It was the Cabots who spoke only to the Lowells, and the Lowells who spoke only to God.) Amy’s older brother Lawrence was president of Harvard University from 1909 to 1933. Amy was the last of seven children, five of whom survived infancy. Amy’s mother remained a semi-invalid for all of Amy’s life (she suffered from Bright’s disease), and Amy was raised mainly by her...
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