Author talk:Elizabeth Virginia Raplee

Biographical note
- AdamBMorgan (talk) 16:03, 24 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Only one source found so far with any sort of biographical information. This PDF: Niagara Falls Gazette (Feb 17, 1940, p. 6) includes a brief bio in the Poetry Promenade section (following a poem that begins "Lament for Our..." Not all of it is legible:
 * "Elizabeth Virginia Raplee, wh secretary to a New York City oecutive, was born at Clayton Y., and spent her childhood Watertown.  She has publis nearly 50 poems in magazines  New York newspapers during  past six years.
 * "The background of my poe she reveals, "might be said to love of beauty, disgust with  present-day, so-called civilizat dislike of the modern  speed without direction and a ing that we have missed the simp and healthiest way to happine our striving for mechanical  technical perfection."
 * Made some guesses:

--Auric (talk) 12:01, 9 July 2016 (UTC)
 * "Elizabeth Virginia Raplee, wh[o was] secretary to a New York City o[il ex]ecutive, was born at Clayton [N.]Y., and spent her childhood [in] Watertown. She has publis[hed] nearly 50 poems in magazines [and] New York newspapers during [the] past six years.
 * "The background of my poe[ms] she reveals, "might be said to [be] love of beauty, disgust with [the] present-day, so-called civilizat[ion] dislike of the modern [craze for] speed without direction and a [feel]ing that we have missed the simp[est] and healthiest way to happine[ss in] our striving for mechanical [and] technical perfection."