Educator.
She was the only child of the noted American impressionist artist Frederick Carl Frieseke, a member of the Giverny Art Colony, and his wife, Sarah Anne "Sadie" O'Bryan.
She met Kenton Kilmer (qv.), her future husband, when her mother hired Kenton to help Frances develop her interest in poetry. The two conducted a long-distance and trans-Atlantic friendship -- and then courtship -- before marrying in 1937.
She co-founded, with her husband, Green Hedges School in Arlington in 1942, and then in Vienna, Virginia. It is reported to have been, in the late 1940's, the first integrated school in Virginia since Reconstruction. She wrote in an article about the school, "The public schools had no poetry and practically no music. Such a paucity of culture was just unbelievable... and no foreign language at all until high school, and no Latin even then."
She was the only child of the noted American impressionist artist Frederick Carl Frieseke, a member of the Giverny Art Colony, and his wife, Sarah Anne "Sadie" O'Bryan.
She met Kenton Kilmer (qv.), her future husband, when her mother hired Kenton to help Frances develop her interest in poetry. The two conducted a long-distance and trans-Atlantic friendship -- and then courtship -- before marrying in 1937.
She co-founded, with her husband, Green Hedges School in Arlington in 1942, and then in Vienna, Virginia. It is reported to have been, in the late 1940's, the first integrated school in Virginia since Reconstruction. She wrote in an article about the school, "The public schools had no poetry and practically no music. Such a paucity of culture was just unbelievable... and no foreign language at all until high school, and no Latin even then."
Educator.
She was the only child of the noted American impressionist artist Frederick Carl Frieseke, a member of the Giverny Art Colony, and his wife, Sarah Anne "Sadie" O'Bryan.
She met Kenton Kilmer (qv.), her future husband, when her mother hired Kenton to help Frances develop her interest in poetry. The two conducted a long-distance and trans-Atlantic friendship -- and then courtship -- before marrying in 1937.
She co-founded, with her husband, Green Hedges School in Arlington in 1942, and then in Vienna, Virginia. It is reported to have been, in the late 1940's, the first integrated school in Virginia since Reconstruction. She wrote in an article about the school, "The public schools had no poetry and practically no music. Such a paucity of culture was just unbelievable... and no foreign language at all until high school, and no Latin even then."
She was the only child of the noted American impressionist artist Frederick Carl Frieseke, a member of the Giverny Art Colony, and his wife, Sarah Anne "Sadie" O'Bryan.
She met Kenton Kilmer (qv.), her future husband, when her mother hired Kenton to help Frances develop her interest in poetry. The two conducted a long-distance and trans-Atlantic friendship -- and then courtship -- before marrying in 1937.
She co-founded, with her husband, Green Hedges School in Arlington in 1942, and then in Vienna, Virginia. It is reported to have been, in the late 1940's, the first integrated school in Virginia since Reconstruction. She wrote in an article about the school, "The public schools had no poetry and practically no music. Such a paucity of culture was just unbelievable... and no foreign language at all until high school, and no Latin even then."
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