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Elaine Goodale Eastman (1863–1953) and Dora Read Goodale (1866–1953) 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'' (1900). Elaine Goodale taught at the Indian Department of Hampton Institute, started a day school on a Dakota reservation in 1886, and was appointed as Superintendent of Indian Education for the Two Dakotas by 1890. She married Dr. Charles Eastman (also known as ''Ohiyesa''), a Santee Sioux who was the first Native American to graduate from medical school and become a physician. They lived with their growing family in the West for several years. Goodale collaborated with him in writing about his childhood and Sioux culture; his nine books were popular and made him a featured speaker on a public lecture circuit. She also continued her own writing, publishing her last book of poetry in 1930, and a biography and last novel in 1935. Dora Read Goodale published a book of poetry at age 21 and continued to write. She became a teacher of art and English in Connecticut. Later she was a teacher and director of the Uplands Sanatorium in Pleasant Hill, Tennessee.〔("Eastman-Goodale-Dayton Family" ), Sophia Smith Collection: Women's History Archives, Smith College, Northampton, MA, accessed 3 February 2011〕 She attracted positive reviews when she published her last book of poetry at age 75 in 1941, in which she combined modernist free verse with the use of Appalachian dialect to express her neighbors' traditional lives.〔 ==Early life and education== Elaine and Dora were born in the 1860s to Dora Hill Read and Henry Sterling Goodale, a farmer and writer in Mount Washington, Massachusetts. Dora Read Goodale was the daughter of a notable colonial family, and Henry Goodale could trace his family tree all the way back to 1632, to an ancestor that settled in Salem, Massachusetts. Elaine, born October 9, 1863, was the couple's first child. Elaine's sister Dora was born four years later. From 1876-1879 Elaine and Dora's father served as a delegate to the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture.〔(''History of Berkshire County, Vol. 1'' ), accessed 3 February 2011〕 His poem "Does Farming Pay?", in the October 1880 issue of ''Harper's Monthly'', was reviewed in the ''New York Times'' as a "terrific" piece of dialect verse.〔("Fresh Magazines. Harper's Magazine" ), ''New York Times'', 18 September 1880, accessed 3 February 2011〕 The Goodale sisters grew up on their parents' farm, known as Sky Farm. They had a brother Robert, and a sister Rose Sterling Goodale. She married James A. Dayton and preserved much of the family's history and manuscripts.〔 The entire family absorbed the New England Transcendental culture. Elaine and Dora were precocious writers, starting poetry while young. Elaine self-published her poems at age eight in her ''Sky Farm Life,'' a monthly. Her first pastoral poem appeared in the Springfield ''Republican'' when she was twelve.〔("The Bride of an Indian: Miss Elaine Goodale Married to Dr. Eastman" ), ''New York Times'', 19 September 1891, accessed 3 February 2011〕 Friends helped collect the two girls' early writings; Elaine was fifteen and Dora twelve when their first book was published: * ''Apple Blossoms: Verses of Two Children'' (1878) * ''In Berkshire with the Wildflowers'' (1879) * ''All Round the Year: Verses from Sky Farm'' (1880) Elaine attended Smith College, where she graduated in 1884. Beginning in 1881, the Goodale sisters contributed to such periodicals as ''Scribner's Monthly'', ''Harper's'' and ''Sunday Magazine''.〔 In 1887 both sisters had their poetry published in ''St. Nicholas Magazine'', as well. As the biographer Theodore Sargent noted, both young poets were included in Edmund Clarence Stedman's classic ''An American Anthology, 1787-1900'', published in 1900.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Goodale Sisters」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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