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Robert, their first child, was named for the Southern hero General Robert E. Lee (1807–1870). When Frost's father died in 1884, his will requested that he be buried in New England. His wife and two children, Robert and Jeanie, went east for the funeral.
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Elinor and Robert Frost had six children: son Elliott (1896–1900, died of cholera); daughter Lesley Frost Ballantine (1899–1983); son Carol (1902–1940); daughter Irma (1903–1967); daughter Marjorie (1905–1934, died as a result of puerperal fever after childbirth); and daughter Elinor Bettina (died just one day after her birth in 1907 ...
Mar 25, 2014 · Frost’s life was marked by enormous loss: only two of his and his wife Elinor’s six children outlived him. Elinor died in 1938. Frost himself suffered from depression, as did several other ...
Dec 11, 2023 · In the cemetery outside Old First Congregational Church in Bennington, Vermont, among other stone markers that “doubtless bear names that the mosses mar,” is a long, rectangular gravestone embossed with seven names: those of poet Robert Lee Frost; his wife, Elinor Miriam White; and five of their six children.
Frost’s life was marked by enormous loss: only two of his and his wife Elinor’s six children outlived him. Elinor died in 1938. Frost himself suffered from depression, as did several other members of his family.
His father, a hustling journalist, died in 1885, leaving his widow and two children with hardly enough money to make it back to Lawrence, Massachusetts. There, young Frost's paternal grandfather, William Prescott Frost Sr., supported the family financially.
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A Boy's Will is a poetry collection by Robert Frost, and is the poet's first commercially published book of poems. The book was first published in 1913 by David Nutt in London, with a dedication to Frost's wife, Elinor.
