Elaine goodale eastman biography

Elaine Goodale Eastman (–) and Dora Read Goodale (–) were American poets and sisters from Massachusetts. They published their first poetry as children still living at home, and were included in Edmund Clarence Stedman 's classic An American Anthology (). Elaine Goodale taught at the Indian Department of Hampton Institute, started a day school on a Dakota reservation in. Elaine Goodale Eastman () In the course of her life, Elaine Goodale Eastman was a novelist, poet, journalist, editor and activist, and a schoolteacher only very briefly. Early years First steps Professional growth Public recognition Peak period Later years Public interest Professional activity Media attention
Eastman, Elaine [Goodale] () Missionary Teacher among American Indians Born in Mount Washington, Massachusetts, Elaine Goodale and her younger sister, Dora, wrote poems about their lives. In , when they were ages 13 and 10, they produced Apple Blossoms: Verses of Two Children. At age 20, Elaine took her first teaching post at a missionary school for Indians at blacks, in Virginia.