{"id":584,"date":"2026-02-24T19:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T19:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/?p=584"},"modified":"2026-03-26T15:26:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:26:01","slug":"martha-linsley-spencer-biographical-and-critical-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/?p=584","title":{"rendered":"Martha Linsley Spencer &#8211; Biographical and Critical Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Johnston, Margaret Thompson. <em>A Tribute to Martha Linsley Spencer, Connecticut Poet<\/em>.\u00a0 Hartford: Press of Finlay Brothers, 1956.<\/p>\n<p>Martha Linsley Spencer Papers, Watkinson Library and College Archives, Trinity College,\u00a0 Hartford, CT<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Miss Spencer Dies, had Taught Dramatic Arts.&#8221; <em>The Hartford Courant<\/em> (1923-), Jul 18,\u00a0 1954.<\/p>\n<p>Morse, Allen. &#8220;Worthy Tribute.&#8221; <em>The Hartford Courant<\/em> (1923-), Apr 01, 1956.<\/p>\n<p>Morse, F. Samuel. \u201cA Gallant Lady.\u201d\u00a0<em>The Hartford\u00a0Courant<\/em>, July 25, 1954.<\/p>\n<p>Spencer,\u00a0Martha Linsley. &#8220;Nutmegs are Wooden.&#8221; <em>Yankee Magazine<\/em>, April 1947.<\/p>\n<p>Spencer,\u00a0Martha Linsley. <em>Remembered Years, collected poems<\/em>. Hartford, Connecticut:\u00a0 Finlay Brothers Press, 1954.<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan, Jessica. \u201cThe People Behind the Poetry: American Poets Martha Linsley Spencer and Edwin Arlington Robinson Reveal Their Prosaic Lives.\u201d <em>The People Behind the\u00a0 Poetry<\/em> (blog). April 10, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johnston, Margaret Thompson. A Tribute to Martha Linsley Spencer, Connecticut Poet.\u00a0 Hartford: Press of Finlay Brothers, 1956. Martha Linsley Spencer Papers, Watkinson Library and College Archives, Trinity College,\u00a0 Hartford, CT &#8220;Miss Spencer Dies, had Taught Dramatic Arts.&#8221; The Hartford Courant (1923-), Jul 18,\u00a0 1954. Morse, Allen. &#8220;Worthy Tribute.&#8221; The Hartford Courant (1923-), Apr 01, 1956. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/?p=584\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Martha Linsley Spencer &#8211; Biographical and Critical Sources<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-martha-linsley-spencer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}