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Jan 31, 2008 · About Lesley Frost Ballantine (1899-1983) Lesley Frost Ballantine, or Lesley Frost, as she always liked to be known, was the second child of Robert and Elinor Frost. She was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts on April 28, 1899. The Frosts moved to a farm in Derry, New Hampshire in the fall of 1900 when she was sixteen months old, and her early ...
Jul 12, 1983 · Lesley Frost Ballantine, an author of children's books and lecturer on English literature, died Saturday at the North Fairfield Geriatric Center in Fairfield, Conn. She was 84 years old. Mrs....
Jun 26, 2020 · Another son, Carol, died in 1940 after he died by suicide. Another daughter, Marjorie, died at 29 after childbirth. Another daughter, Elinor Bettina died as an infant. Only Irma and another...
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Jim Nickerson interview with Lesley Frost Ballantine, writer and daughter of Robert Frost, about her father, her family life, and her family correspondence. This archival material has been provided for educational purposes. Ball State University Libraries recognizes that some historic items may include offensive content.
Aug 31, 1983 · BENNINGTON, Vt. -- A memorial service will be held Saturday for Lesley Frost Ballantine, daughter of the late poet Robert Frost. She died July 9 in Fairfield, Conn., at the age of 84. She was ...
They had six children: Eliot (1896-1904, died of cholera), Lesley Frost Ballantine (1899-1983), Carol (1902-1940, committed suicide), Irma (1903-1967, institutionalized for mental illness from 1947), Marjorie (1905-1934, died of complications from childbirth), and Elinor Bettina (1907, died three days after birth).
Correspondence of Gladys and Clifford Lyons with Elinor and Robert Frost, the Frosts' daughter, Lesley Frost Ballantine, and their granddaughter, Lesley Francis Zimic, as well as letters about Frost from various individuals, including the writer Louis Untermeyer, and Frost's biographer, Lawrance Thompson.
