Julia Boynton Green

{{Infobox writer | name = Julia Boynton Green | image = JULIA BOYNTON GREEN.jpg | image_size = | image_upright = | alt = 19th-century B&W portrait photo of a woman with her hair in an up-do, wearing a pale, fitted blouse. | caption = Photo in ''A Woman of the Century'' | pseudonym = | birth_name = Julia P. Boynton | birth_date = May 25, 1861 | birth_place = South Byron, New York, U.S. | death_date = {{dda|1957|7|10|1861|5|25}} | death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S. | resting_place = Hollywood Forever Cemetery | occupation = author, poet | language = English | education = | alma_mater = | period = | genre = | subject = | movement = | notableworks = | spouse = {{marriage|Levi Worthington Green|1890}} | children = | relatives = Nathanial Greene | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = }} '''Julia Boynton Green''' ({{nee}}, '''Boynton'''; May 25, 1861 – July 10, 1957) was an American author and poet. She is remembered as an "anti-modernist who railed against free verse".{{sfn|Yaszek|Sharp|2016|p=242}} She was the author of a volume of poems entitled ''Lines and Interlines'' (1887),{{sfn|Herringshaw|1914|p=1914}} as well as two other books, ''This Enchanted Coast: Verse on California Themes'' (1928) and ''Noonmark'' (1936).

==Early life and education== Julia P. Boynton was born in South Byron, New York,{{efn|According to Yaszek & Sharp (2016), Green was born in Boston.{{sfn|Yaszek|Sharp|2016|p=242}} }} May 25, 1861.{{sfn|Willard|Livermore|1893|p=336}} Her father was James T. Boynton (d. 1889). She had at least one sibling, a sister, Mrs. A. H. Green.<ref name="DemocratandChronicle1889">{{cite news |title=Deatah of James Boynton, a Wealthy Citizen of South Byron |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/135131914/?terms=Julia%2BBoynton%2BGreen%2BByron%2C%2BNew%2BYork |access-date=22 January 2019 |work=Newspapers.com |agency=Democrat and Chronicle |date=9 September 1889 |pages=3}} {{open access}}</ref> She was a descendant of Nathanial Greene, major general of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War.<ref name="TheSanBernardinoCountySun1929">{{cite news |title=Mr. and Mrs. Green, The Writers Sojourn at Laguna Beach |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/49427059/?terms=Julia%2BBoynton%2BGreen |access-date=22 January 2019 |via=Newspapers.com |publisher=The San Bernardino County Sun |date=6 August 1929 |pages=7 }} {{open access}}</ref>{{efn| Nathanial Greene's family branch dropped the final e from the surname.<ref name="TheSanBernardinoCountySun1929" /> }}

When she was fifteen years old, she and her older sister entered Ingham University, in LeRoy, New York, where they remained a year as students. Another year was spent by both in preparation for Wellesley College. After entering that institution, they were called home after the father's death. Their interrupted course of study was continued for several years, chiefly in Nyack. She afterwards passed two winters in New York in the study of art, followed by a season in London, England.{{sfn|Willard|Livermore|1893|p=336}}

==Career== Most of Green's work appeared in local journals and in the Boston ''Transcript''. In 1887, she published a volume of poems, ''Lines and Interlines'' (New York, 1887). In 1888, she was preparing for an extended tour in Europe, when she was called home by the illness of her mother, who subsequently died.{{sfn|Willard|Livermore|1893|p=336}} She married Levi Worthington Green in June, 1890, and after a six-months' tour in Europe, they made their home in Rochester, New York.{{sfn|Willard|Livermore|1893|p=336}} thumb|Julia Boynton Green (1905) In 1893, she removed to Redlands, where her husband became a Southern California pioneer orange rancher and author.<ref name="latimes1932">{{cite news |title=Rites for Green to Be Tomorrow |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/380438294/?terms=Julia%2BBoynton%2BGreen |access-date=22 January 2019 |work=Newspapers.com |publisher=Los Angeles Times |date=21 December 1932 |pages=19 }} {{open access}}</ref> Their three children were Gladys, Boynton, and Norman.<ref name="RedlandsDailyFacts1957" /> By 1929, the couple and their daughter had removed to Westwood, as their daughter was working as a librarian at University of California, Los Angeles.<ref name="SanBernardinoCountySun1929">{{cite news|title=Julia Boynton Green, Magazine Author |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/49276136/?terms=Julia%2BBoynton%2BGreen |access-date=22 January 2019 |publisher=The San Bernardino County Sun |date=7 December 1929 |pages=12 |language=en |via=Newspapers.com}} {{open access}}</ref>

She published a second book of poetry, ''This Enchanted Coast: Verse on California Themes'', in 1928 in Los Angeles. ''Noonmark'' was published in Redlands,{{sfn|Allmendinger|2015|p=261}} in 1936.{{sfn|Yaszek|Sharp|2016|p=242}} In 1941, she received an honorable mention from the Los Angeles branch of the League of American Penwomen, as well as a prize from the national contest of American Penwomen.<ref name="latimes1941">{{cite news |title=Penwomen Award Prizes in Contest |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/380703381/?terms=Julia%2BBoynton%2BGreen |access-date=22 January 2019 |work=Newspapers.com |publisher=Los Angeles Times |date=14 September 1941 |pages=46 }} {{open access}}</ref>

==Death and legacy== Julia P. Boynton Green died July 10, 1957,<ref name="RedlandsDailyFacts1957"/> in Los Angeles,<ref name="RedlandsDailyFacts1957">{{cite news |title=Mrs. Julia B. Green Dies |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/1603992/?terms=Julia%2BBoynton%2BGreen |access-date=22 January 2019 |via=Newspapers.com |publisher=Redlands Daily Facts |date=12 July 1957 |pages=5 }} {{open access}}</ref> and is buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Her papers and three unpublished books are collected at the Huntington Library.<ref name="arras.net">{{cite web|title=Three Women Los Angeles Poets|url=http://www.arras.net/fscIII/?p=2212|publisher=Free Space Comix|date=28 July 2013}}</ref>

The L. Worthington Green/Julia Boynton Home, built in 1911, received the 1986 Heritage Award from the Redlands Area Historical Society.<ref name="rahs.org">{{cite web|title=1986 HERITAGE AWARD RECIPIENT - L. Worthington Green Home|url=http://rahs.org/awards/l-worthington-green-home/|publisher=Redlands Area Historical Society|access-date=20 May 2018}}</ref>

==Selected works== ===By Julia P. Boynton=== * ''Lines and Interlines'', 1887

===By Julia Boynton Green=== * ''This Enchanted Coast: Verse on California Themes'', 1928 * ''Noonmark'', 1936

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===Attribution=== * {{Source-attribution| {{cite book|last=Herringshaw|first=Thomas William|title=Herringshaw's American Blue-book of Biography: Prominent Americans of ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4IxIAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA443|edition=Public domain|year=1914|publisher=American Publishers' Association}} }} * {{Source-attribution| {{cite book|last1=Willard|first1=Frances Elizabeth|last2=Livermore|first2=Mary Ashton Rice|title=A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_zXEEAAAAYAAJ|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_zXEEAAAAYAAJ/page/n340 336]|edition=Public domain|year=1893|publisher=Moulton}} }}

===Bibliography=== * {{cite book|last=Allmendinger|first=Blake|title=A History of California Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mlutCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA261|date=19 May 2015|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-05209-3}} * {{cite book|last1=Yaszek|first1=Lisa|last2=Sharp|first2=Patrick B.|title=Sisters of Tomorrow: The First Women of Science Fiction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WKfjCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA242|date=7 June 2016|publisher=Wesleyan University Press|isbn=978-0-8195-7625-5}}

==External links== * {{wikisource-inline|Woman of the Century/Julia Boynton Green}} * {{Internet Archive author |sname=Julia Boynton Green}}

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