Fenollosa
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
MARY MCNEILL, an American writer, using the pen name "Sidney McCall", born in Mobile, Ala. She was educated at the Irving Academy, Mobile, Ala. In 1894 she married Ernest F. Fenollosa, who died in 1908. She traveled extensively in Europe and Japan, residing in the latter country for about eight years. She devoted much time to the study of Japanese life and characters. She wrote many volumes of verse and fiction, including "Out of the Nest"; "A Flight of Verses" (1899); "The Dragon Painter" (1906); "The Breath of the Gods" (1906); "Blossoms Japanese Garden" (1915); from a "Christopher Laird" (1919). FEODOR I., IVANOVITCH (fā'ōdōr), the last czar of the dynasty of Ruric on the throne of Russia; born May 11, 1557. He began his reign in 1584, and being weak, both in body and mind, assigned the government of his affairs to Goudonoff, who seems to have managed them with dexterity and vigor. In his reign the peasants of Muscovy were converted into serfs, and attached to the land. Previously they had enjoyed personal liberty. The conquest of Siberia was achieved by Goudonoff, and many remarkable diplomatic relations with foreign courts were effected. He died Jan. 7, 1598. FEODOR III., Czar of Russia, and eldest brother of Peter the Great; born June 8, 1656. He ascended the throne when only 19 years of age, and evinced a strength of will and determination of character. His reign is rendered memorable on account of his calling into his presence the Muscovite nobles, who desolated the country with broils about their claims of family precedence, and throwing the rolls of the Razriad or " Arrangement," into the fire. cal records, which did not relate to claims of precedence, were preserved and properly ly arranged arranged, in accordance with his will. He died in Moscow, April 27, 1682.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's in 1921 introduced Mary McNeill Fenollosa as a novelist and versifier who happened to have married Ernest F. Fenollosa, "who died in 1908." It missed the thing she is now remembered for: as her husband's literary executor she handed his notebooks on Chinese poetry and Japanese Noh drama to Ezra Pound in 1913, and out of them came Pound's "Cathay" (1915), "Certain Noble Plays of Japan" (1916) and the essay "The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry" "ideogrammic method" that shaped English-language modernism. Mary Fenollosa, whom Collier's leaves alive and writing, died in 1954; her own fiction has largely fallen out of print, though "The Dragon Painter" survives in another form as the 1919 silent film starring Sessue Hayakawa, long thought lost and since restored. Ernest Fenollosa's own reputation now rests less on his writing than on the Japanese and Chinese art he bought, which forms a core of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
Written for this edition, 2026.