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Grace Wilbur Conant

Short Name: Grace Wilbur Conant
Full Name: Conant, Grace Wilbur, 1858-1948
Birth Year: 1858
Death Year: 1948

Pseudonym: A. B. Ponsonby.

Born: Sep­tem­ber 9, 1858, Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts.

Died: Ap­ril 7, 1948, Malden, Mass­a­chu­setts.

Grace re­mained sin­gle all her life. Her mid­dle name was her mo­ther’s maid­en name. She served as mu­sic­al ed­it­or for the Kin­der­gar­ten Review for at least six years, star­ting in 1908. Her works in­clude:

Songs for Lit­tle Peo­ple, with Fran­ces Weld Dan­i­el­son (Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts: The Pil­grim Press, 1905)
Worship and Song, with Ben­ja­min S. Win­ches­ter (Pilg­rim Press, 1913)
Religious Dan­gers of Mo­dern Ten­den­cies in So-Called Re­li­gious Songs, 1917
Song and Play for Child­ren, with Fran­ces Weld Dan­iel­son (Pil­grim Press, 1925)

--The Cyber Hymnal


Texts by Grace Wilbur Conant (5)sort descendingAsAuthority LanguagesInstances
All in the darknessGrace Wilbur Conant (Author)2
Dandelions in the grassGrace Wilbur Conant (Author)3
I bind my heart this tideGrace Wilbur Conant (Author)English1
Suffer little children, and forbid them not (Conant)Grace Wilbur Conant (Author)1
Welcome, welcome, happy birdGrace Wilbur Conant (Author)2

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