Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant (1881-1965) was an American journalist and writer. In 1910, she wrote her first article, "Toilers of the Tenements," which she published in McClure's Magazine under the editorship of Willa Cather, thus beginning a lifelong friendship between the two women. When the New Republic was founded in 1914, she became one of its original contributors. In 1916, she published her first book, French Perspectives, a result of her extensive travels to that country as the New Republic's war correspondent. On October 19, 1918, she was severely injured when her companion picked up a hand grenade that exploded. That experience resulted in her second book, Shadow-Shapes: Journal of a Wounded Woman, 1920. She spent extensive time in New York City and at MacDowell. In 1927, she published a collection of profiles about prominent Americans, Fire Under the Andes. Sergeant studied with Carl Jung and Toni Woolf in Zurich from 1929 to 1931. She published her only novel, Short as any Dream, in 1929.
Elizabeth Sergeant
Studios
Mixter
Elizabeth Sergeant worked in the Mixter studio.
Built in 1927–1930, the Florence Kilpatrick Mixter Studio was funded by its namesake and designed by the architect F. Winsor, Jr., who also designed MacDowell's original Savidge Library in 1925. Mixter Studio, solidly built of yellow and grey-hued granite, once had sweeping views of Pack Monadnock to the east. The lush forest has now grown…