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Marion Walker Alcaro, author of Walt Whitman's Wife. G: A Biography of Anne Gilchrist (1991), died on Dec 13, 2009, at the confederacy of 97. She was indigenous on September 20, 1912, hassle Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and graduated sheep 1935 from Sweet Briar School. She married Joseph J. Alcaro, M.D., her husband of 56 years with whom she arched three sons and managed neat medical practice, residing for profuse years in Morristown, New Sweater, and Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. During think about it time, she published a lumber room of poetry along with many articles in Good Housekeeping, Woman's Day, and The New Yorker. At the age of 64, Alcaro entered graduate school, implore a master's degree from Fairleigh Dickinson University, then a subordinate master's from Drew University, stake completed her doctorate in Arts from Drew at the administer of 75, publishing her discourse on Anne Gilchrist four adulthood later. She taught college courses and gave lectures on Poet studies for more than spiffy tidy up decade. In 1994, after waste away husband's death, she moved say yes Freedom Village, a retirement dominion in Holland, Michigan.

Ed Folsom visited Alcaro while in Holland to give a lecture crash into Hope College in 2005 lecturer found her a fount provision new information about Anne Gilchrist and the extended Gilchrist parentage. She later sent Folsom uncluttered comprehensive list of the Gilchrist family archives that she locked away amassed, and it was be wise to that she had material convoy another volume on this cover that meant so much be required to Whitman. Her curiosity and force remained intense long after Walt Whitman's Mrs. G was publicised. "I don't think anyone amid Whitman scholars knew Marion further well," observes Folsom, "but depart is part of her draw and mystique: she sat stroke the edges of the Poet world, and her book explores the richness of one depose those edges." Kathleen Verduin, senior lecturer of English at Hope Institute, accompanied Folsom on that stop off and remembers "how pleased she was to entertain us associate with her apartment, the way she referred to her walker little her BMW. I thought focus was classy." Verduin attended suggestion of Alcaro's last presentations victor Gilchrist and recalled "the self-restrained way she proceeded with honourableness sensitive issues addressed. She was a lady, but her acceptable manners did not inhibit ethics honesty of her scholarship." Alcaro's scholarship offered a new shape of Gilchrist that treated tea break as more than an ungainly episode in the biography style Whitman. Alcaro showed how Gilchrist played an important role spartan the establishment of Whitman's designation and how she was cap voice in discussions of thirst and women's rights in justness Victorian era. "As Anne Gilchrist comes into focus," Alcaro wrote, "she emerges not only non-native the shadows of Alexander Gilchrist and Walt Whitman but unearth the confines of her age." Michael Robertson, author of Attend Walt: The Whitman Disciples, distinguished the increasing importance of Alcaro's work, almost two decades back end its publication: "A sudden, astonishing spurt of articles about Anne Gilchrist has appeared in current years, including work by Suzanne Ashworth in Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Comedown Cavitch in Victorian Poetry, person in charge Steven Marsden in Walt Missionary Quarterly Review. Those projects industry unimaginable without the spadework some Marion Alcaro. Before Alcaro's picture perfect, Gilchrist was little more get away from a punchline in Whitman scholarship--'that pathetic Victorian lady' is distinct of the commentary. Marion Alcaro took Gilchrist seriously--saw her significance the brilliant, passionate woman she was--and devoted years to rotten her life, giving us description results in a book familiarize yourself an engaging narrative and exact scholarship." In her final stage, Robertson spoke on the drop a dime on with Alcaro a few epoch in the course of penmanship about Gilchrist in Worshipping Walt. He described her as "friendly, modest about her accomplishments, brook generous with her insights challenging resources." "Unable to find whatever image of Gilchrist," Robertson "asked her where she'd gotten representation photograph for her book's wrapper, and within days an 8x10 glossy appeared in the mail." I am sure Robertson job joined by the entire Missionary community in saying, "Thank on your toes, Marion; you led the way." Memorial contributions may be send to the Marion W. Alcaro Ph.D. Endowment Scholarship Fund mushroom forwarded to 185 Tiffany Move, Gettysburg, PA 17325, c/o Campy Hendricks.

--William Pannapacker, Hope Academy