Robert Frost’s Timeline

Robert Lee Frost

(1874-1963)

• Robert Frost was born in San Francisco, California

• His father William Frost, a journalist and an ardent Democrat, died when Frost was about eleven years old

• His Scottish mother, the former Isabelle Moody, resumed her career as a schoolteacher to support her family.

• The family lived in Lawrence, Massachusetts, with Frost's paternal grandfather, William Prescott Frost

• In 1892 Frost graduated from a high school and attended Dartmouth College for a few months.

• Frost worked among others in a textile mill and taught Latin at his mother's school in Methuen, Massachusetts

• In 1894 the New York Independent published Frost's poem 'My Butterfly'

• In 1895 he married a former schoolmate, Elinor White; they had six children.

• From 1897 to 1899 Frost studied at Harvard, but left without receiving a degree.

• In 1912 Frost sold his farm and moved his family to England where he first published his collection of poems, A BOY'S WILL, at the age of 39. It was followed by NORTH BOSTON (1914)

• The collection contains some of Frost's best-known poems: 'Mending Wall,' 'The Death of the Hired Man,' 'Home Burial,' 'A