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Built in 1892... the year Millay was born, its Victorian glories were removed by Millay to create a simple New England farmhouse. Today the house still holds all of her furniture, books and other possessions, many of which remain where they were on the day she died - October 19, 1950.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay Society | The Society's mission is to ...
The House. Built in 1892, the year Millay was born, its...
- Edna St. Vincent Millay Society | The Society's mission is to ...
Millay House Rockland will oversee the restoration of the birthplace of the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. The group plans to restore the original character of the double house and foster a writers’ organization to promote the literary, theatrical and artistic heritage of midcoast Maine.
Openly bisexual poet Edna St. Vincent Millay lived in this narrow house from the fall of 1923 to the spring of 1925. Millay, considered one of the most significant writers of 20th-century literature, was a central figure in Bohemian Greenwich Village and a symbol of the modern, liberated woman of the 1920s.
Poet, feminist, playwright, political activist, polyamorous lover, gardener. Vincent, as she liked to be called, has risen and fallen and risen again in popularity. She read to sold-out houses, immensely admired for her sensuous beauty, for her intense imagination.
The House. Built in 1892, the year Millay was born, its Victorian glories were removed by Millay to create a simple New England farmhouse. Today the house still holds all of her furniture, books and other possessions, many of which remain where they were on the day she died - October 19, 1950.
Millay House Rockland is a nonprofit organization that champions poets, as well as creators and practitioners of all the arts. It celebrates the legacy of Edna St. Vincent Millay and the rich heritage of midcoast Maine.
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ROCKLAND—Next time you’re walking by Broadway in Rockland, take a look at the the modest yellow double house at 198-200, particularly at the single pane window on the upper right side. That’s the room in which Edna St. Vincent Millay was born.
