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Howard Weeden

1847–1905


Howard Weeden (Maud Howard Weeden, 1847–1905) was an American poet and painter of Huntsville, Alabama. She is remembered for Songs of the Old South (1900), which paired dialect verse with her portraits of the Black men and women she knew in the South.

Edmund Clarence Stedman included two of her poems, “The Banjo of the Past” and “The Borrowed Child”, in An American Anthology (1900).

  1. The Banjo of the Past
  2. The Borrowed Child

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