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Biography of Sara Teasdale, 1884-1933

Biographical Sketch by Leslie Laurio

Sara Teasdale was born into a well-to-do family in St. Louis, Missouri. Even as a child, she loved pretty things. In fact, her first word was "pretty." Her three much older siblings doted on their little sister, whom they affectionately called "Sadie," and treated like a princess. She was homeschooled until age ten due to frail health, and lived an extremely sheltered life. She grew up believing she was delicate and helpless, and that perception never left her. It caused her anxiety and made her feel very dependent on others. Yet she was often left alone and had to amuse herself because her siblings were so much older, and she had no peers. Because her family considered her delicate, she was not allowed to run around and play like most children. She was a shy and lonely child.

She went to a private girls' school where she made friends and began to write, both poetry and prose. As a young woman, she joined a group of other young women artists in St. Louis who called themselves The Potters and published a

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Sara Teasdale: A Biography

February 17, 2012

Though I did not care for Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt, I owe it a lot: it was the book that first brought Sara Teasdale to my attention. I no longer remember in what context she was mentioned, but whatever it was caused me to make note of her name and decide to get her collected poems from the library.

I fell in love with her poems very quickly. I remember reading them in bed at night and reveling in their loveliness and how much I connected with them. Sara writes deceptively simple-looking poems that actually have timeless depth.

Forgetting there were some things I wanted to copy from this biography, I returned it to the library this morning. Oops. So, uh... there was a review on the back that said something about it being "more than just a biography of Sara Teasdale" and it certainly was! It was a biography of the time she lived in, and the people surrounding her. As another reviewer (or was it the same one?) pointed out, it was almost a biography of Vachel Lindsay, as well. Ah, yes - poor Vachel. He was so passionate, so pathe

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Sara Trevor Teasdale was born on August 8, 1884 in St. Louis Missouri. She was the youngest child of Mary Elizabeth Willard and John Warren Teasdale. At the time of Sara's birth, Mary was 40, and John was 45. Teasdale had three other siblings. She had two brothers, George, who was the oldest child at 20, and John Warren Jr., was was 14. Teasdale also had a sister, named Mary (she was fondly called "Maime"), and she was 17. Mary loved her sister Sara and took very good care of her. Sara was named after her grandmother. Teasdale's first word was "pretty". According to her mother, Sara's love of pretty things was what inspired her poetry.

Teasdale was always very frail, and caught diseases easily. For most of her life, she had a nurse companion that took care of her. Teasdale grew up in a sheltered atmosphere. She was the youngest child. Because of that, she was spoiled and waited on like a princess. She never had to do normal chores, like make her bed, or do the dishes. She was known to have described herself as "a flower in a toiling world". Because she was so sickly