Sally Kinsolving

Sally Bruce Kinsolving was born Sally Archer Bruce on February 14, 1876 in Richmond, Virginia. She was educated in private schools and at the home of her grandfather, Charles Bruce, a former Virginia State Senator. On February 5, 1896, she married the Reverend Arthur Barksdale Kinsolving. The couple moved to Baltimore in 1906. They had a total of seven children: Arthur Lee, Sally, Herbert, Mary Bruce, Anne Seddon, Lucinda, and Eleanor. Anne Seddon (m. Anne Seddon Kinsolving Brown) later became a writer. Sally Kinsolving was a volunteer worker in the church until she published her first volume of poetry, Depths and Shallows, in 1921. Three other volumes followed: David and Bathsheba, and other poems, in 1922; Grey Heather, in 1930; and Many Waters, in 1942. Her correspondence indicates that the poetry was well-received in the literary world. Sally was a member of the Poetry Society of America. She founded the Poetry Society of Maryland in 1923 and served as its president from 1929-38. Sally Bruce Kinsolving died April 27, 1962, after a long illness.

(Short version of this biography: https://www.prattlibrary.org/assets/documents/locations-and-hours/ms-17-sally-bruce-kinsolving-collection1.pdf)