Field, Sara Bard (1882–1974)
Field, Sara Bard (1882–1974)
American poet. Name variations: Sara Bard Field Wood. Born Sara Bard Field in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1882; died June 15, 1974, in Berkeley, California; dau. of Annie Jenkins (Stevens) Field and George Bard Field; sister of Mary Field Parton (head of a social settlement in Chicago); moved to Detroit at age 3; m. Albert Ehrgott (minister), 1900 (div. 1914); m. Charles Erskine Scott Wood (liberal activist and lawyer), Jan 20, 1938 (died 1944); children: (1st m.) Albert (1901–1918) and Katherine Louise (b. 1906).
Married a minister many years her senior (1900), who had just been accepted by a Eurasian Baptist Church in Rangoon, Burma; while there, witnessed what she deemed the English-Christian exploitation of the Burmese; because of ill health, returned to America; moved with family to a poor parish in Cleveland, where she and husband continued to mingle with liberals and socialists; moved once more to Portland, Oregon, where she organized the College Equal Suffrage League, helped in the Nevada campaign for suffrage, and traveled throughout the country speaking in the interests of national suffrage; lived in San Francisco with Charles Wood for years before he was free to marry; writings include The Pale Woman (1927), Barabbas (1932), and Darkling Plain (1936).