{"id":713,"date":"2013-12-04T15:38:28","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T22:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=713"},"modified":"2017-05-23T08:50:14","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T15:50:14","slug":"bancroft-betsy-barber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=713","title":{"rendered":"BANCROFT, BETSY BARBER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Poet. Born Birmingham. Parents&#8211; Judge\u00a0William C. Barber and Frances Barber.\u00a0 Married&#8211; Joseph Bancroft. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; Howard College (now Samford University). Served as a poet-in-residence in several school systems of the state including Fort Payne and Montgomery.\u00a0Member of the National League of American Pen Women; the Women&#8217;s Committee of 100 for Birmingham; the Alabama State Poetry Society; and the Bluff Park Art Association.\u00a0 Received the Printing Industries of American Award of Excellence in Printing and design for <em>Wild Honeysuckle<\/em>;\u00a0 received the Alabama Historical Association Award of Merit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Files at Alabama Public Library Service; Pelican Press website.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Belongings; a Retrospective Journal of the South. Natchitoches, La.; Northwestern State University Press, 1980. Green Again. Gretna, La.; Pelican Pub. Co., 1971.<\/p>\n<p>Green Again.\u00a0 Pelican Press, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Heir&#8217;s Song. Birmingham, Ala.; Heirship Press, 1976.<\/p>\n<p>Wild Honeysuckle. Gretna, La.; Pelican Press, 1966.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers;<\/strong> A collection of the papers of Betsy Barber Bancroft is held by the Eugene P. Watson Memorial Library at Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, Louisiana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Poet. Born Birmingham. Parents&#8211; Judge\u00a0William C. Barber and Frances Barber.\u00a0 Married&#8211; Joseph Bancroft. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; Howard College (now Samford University). Served as a poet-in-residence in several school systems of the state including Fort Payne and Montgomery.\u00a0Member of the National League of American Pen Women; the Women&#8217;s Committee of 100 for Birmingham; the Alabama [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713","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=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6499,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions\/6499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}