Daphne, an Autumn Pastoral

Margaret Pollock Sherwood, sister of Mary Sherwood, was born on November 1, 1864, in Ballston, New York. She graduated from secondary school at a private boarding school in Newburgh, New York, and from Vassar College in 1886. In 1888, after a semester of study at the University of Zurich, she studied for a semester at the University of Oxford. She taught in Wellesley Colleges English department from 1889 to 1931, when she retired. In 1898, she received a Ph.D. from Yale University and in 1920 a Doctor of Letters from New York University. For a number of years she sometimes taught part-time at the University Extension of Columbia University.