Winifred Sackville Stoner, Jr., A Prodigious Poet Known As The Wonder Girl

Winifred Sackville Stoner Jr., an incredible poet and child prodigy was born in 1902 in Evansville, IN. Her mother and father, Winifred Sackville Stoner, played a massive role in her development. Her mother was an innovative educator and the founder of the National Education Movement. She always promoted the necessity of fun in learning.

Early Life Of Winifred Sackville Stoner Jr.

Winifred, the own child of Mother Stoner, was a successful learner in her own right. When she was only three-years-old, she was able to read and write. By the age of six, she had an illustrated book of her published poems and was able to use a typewriter. She was able to speak at least five languages by the age of eight.

At the age of just nine, the child prodigy passed Stanford University’s entrance exams and cleared the exam of the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She was indeed a multi-talented child prodigy.

An Incredible Poet

Winifred Sackville Stoner Jr. got prominence for her poems, mnemonic jingles, and rhymes that contain recollection of information. One of her most popular poems is, The History of The U.S, of which the beginning lines are:

In fourteen hundred ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. And found this land, land of the Free, beloved by you, beloved by me.

Stoner’s personal life was not probably the same success as her intellectual life. At the age of 19, she got married to a French count, Charles de Bruche, 35-years-old at that time. He faked to die in a car accident in 1922 in Mexico City. However, Stoner appealed for a cancellation of the marriage as de Bruche came back in 1930.

She probably already knew that her husband’s actual name was Charles Clinton Philip Bruch. After that, she married Louis Hyman, but that marriage ended in divorce, and they fell apart. Between the 1930s and her last years, she rarely came into the spotlight. The child prodigy left the world in 1983.

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