About Harriet Converse Moody
Harriet Converse Moody was an American businesswoman and arts patron. Moody began her career in Chicago in 1889, working as a schoolteacher and then forming a successful restaurant and catering business that operated for almost 40 years. After her brief marriage to the poet William Vaughn Moody, which ended upon his death of brain cancer, she became a patron to artists, particularly poets. The company failed in 1929 as Moody's interests shifted towards supporting the arts; upon Moody's death, the poet Harriet Monroe wrote: "Lavish to the last, it was no wonder that Mrs. Following the death of her father, Moody became the primary caregiver for her mother.
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