Florence Converse (1871–1967) was an American author. Biography Florence Converse was born in New Orleans in 1871. She graduated from Wellesley College in 1893 and was a member of the editorial staff of The Churchman from 1900 to 1908, when she joined the staff of the Atlantic Monthly. Converse wrote several novels. These included Long Will, a novel about the Peasants' Revolt of 1381. She was in a lesbian relationship with Vida Dutton Scudder and they are buried alongside each other at Newton Cemetery, Newton, Massachusetts. Bibliography Diana Victrix (1897) The Burden of Christopher (1900) Long Will, A Romance (1903) The House of Prayer (1908) A Masque of Sibyls (1910) The Children of Light (1912) The Story of Wellesley (1915) The Blessed Birthday (1917) Garments of Praise (1921) Thy Kingdom Come: A Dream for Easter Even (1921) Santa Conversazione: An All Saints Miracle (1921) The Holy night (1922) The Happy Swan (1925) Into the Void (1926) Sphinx (1931) Efficiency Expert (1934) Collected poems of Florence Converse (1937) The Madman and the Wrecking Crew (Crux Ave, Spes Unica) (1939) Wellesley College, a chronicle of the years 1875-1938 (1939) Prologue to Peace: the Poems of Two Wars (1949) References Attribution External links 1871 births 1967 deaths 19th-century American novelists Writers from New Orleans Wellesley College alumni LGBT people from Louisiana 20th-century American novelists American LGBT novelists American women novelists American women journalists 20th-century American women writers 19th-century American women writers Novelists from Louisiana 20th-century American non-fiction writers American historical novelists Women historical novelists Writers of historical fiction set in the Middle Ages