{"id":2267,"date":"2012-11-09T13:29:02","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T20:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2267"},"modified":"2012-11-09T13:29:02","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T20:29:02","slug":"weeden-howard-1847-1905","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2267","title":{"rendered":"WEEDEN, MARIA HOWARD, 1847-1905"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Poet; painter. Born&#8211;  July 6, 1847, in Huntsville, Ala.  Parents&#8211;  William and Jane E. (Urquhart)  Weeden.\u00a0 Attended Huntsville Female Seminary and the Alabama Female Methodist College at Tuskegee (later Huntingdon College); private lessons with portrait painter William Frye.\u00a0 Painted landscapes and Alabama wildflowers in watercolor; painted portraits, notably using African-American subjects.\u00a0 Paintings were exhibited in Berlin (1895) and in Paris. Wrote several books of poetry in black dialect.\u00a0Elected to the Alabama Women&#8217;s Hall of Fame, 1998. \u00a0Died April 12, 1905.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dictionary of Alabama Biography, Vol. 4; website of Alabama Women&#8217;s Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bandanna Ballads.  New York;  Doubleday &amp; McClure, 1899.<\/p>\n<p>Old Voices.  New York;  Doubleday, Page &amp; Co., 1904.<\/p>\n<p>Shadows on the Wall.  New York;  Ayers Co., 1898.<\/p>\n<p>Songs of the Old South;  Verses and Drawings.  New York;  Doubleday, Page &amp; Co., 1900.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Illustrator:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Songs and Stories from Tennessee.  Philadelphia;  H. T. Coates Co., 1902.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Poet; painter. Born&#8211; July 6, 1847, in Huntsville, Ala. Parents&#8211; William and Jane E. (Urquhart) Weeden.\u00a0 Attended Huntsville Female Seminary and the Alabama Female Methodist College at Tuskegee (later Huntingdon College); private lessons with portrait painter William Frye.\u00a0 Painted landscapes and Alabama wildflowers in watercolor; painted portraits, notably using African-American subjects.\u00a0 Paintings were exhibited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-w-z"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}