15 Quotes & Sayings By Amy Lowell

In 1895, at the age of sixteen, Amy became engaged to lawyer Robert Lowell; their marriage was to include two children: Robert, who died in infancy; and Elizabeth, who married Cambridge Professor Frederick Goddard Tuckerman. Amy belonged to a social circle which included such literary figures as Henry James and William Dean Howells and artists such as Augustus Saint-Gaudens and John Singer Sargent. She also developed close friendships with many other luminaries, including John Singer Sargent's wife Natalie Barney, Edward Steichen's wife Anna (née Fiske), painter Manet's sister Suzanne Valadon, sculptor Saint-Gaudens' brother Robert in Paris (the artist became a great friend of hers), among many others. In 1894 Amy began attending Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts. During her college years she developed a friendship with poet Louise Brooks after Louise visited Boston and met Amy through Louise's sister Geraldine Fiske (who was also an artist).

Louise Brooks later recalled: "She [Amy] had been my first love even before I saw her." In 1899 Amy graduated from Radcliffe with honors in the class of 1902. In 1896 Amy married journalist Edwin Forbes Lowell Jr., known by his pen name Amory Blanchard. During their marriage they lived in Washington D.C., New York City, Paris, London and Florence... Jane Addams met Amy Lowell while she was still a student at Radcliffe College where Addams was a teacher in 1901–02. They became lifelong friends who later collaborated on various projects including the founding of Hull House.

In 1906 Addams wrote a series of articles for Pearson's Magazine about women's conditions in the slums of Chicago entitled "How I Became A Radical". The articles were so well received that Addams received an invitation from President Theodore Roosevelt to visit Europe on behalf of Hull House where Addams served as director from 1907 until 1912 when