Selma Ware Paine

Title

Selma Ware Paine

Full Name

Ware Paine, Selma (1847 - 1917)

Lifespan

1847 - 1917

Place of origin

Bangor, Maine

Country of origin

United States of America

Language

English

Occupation

Author

Musician

Poet

Short biography

Selma Ware Paine (1847-1917) was a published writer and musician from Bangor, Maine who addressed the World's Parliament of Religion with an essay entitled "The Womanly Nature," which emphasized the importance of a woman's following her own path, regardless of the strictures of society. This idea was nurtured by her faith in Swedenborg principles, which stressed the concept of usefulness and the theory of the masculine and feminine nature; that a man or woman must follow one's own path in life or risk the consequences of going against one's own nature.

Selected List of Publications

"Some glimpses of the unity of truth in Dante"

Fugitive Poems

Selma Ware Paine, Fugitive Poems - Archive.org

Link to external sources

Susan Flagg Poole, Lost Legacy: Inspiring Women of Nineteenth-Century America - H-Net Reviews