ABSTRACT
To Eliza Allen Starr, poet, artist, and educator, recognition to a foremost place in the patronage and interpretation of the Beautiful in Christian Art, must in all justice be accorded. Descended from a Puritan New England family which had helped to rock the cradle of Harvard University, Eliza Allen Starr was born at Deerfield, Massachusetts, Aug. 29, 1824. Her girlhood was cast in the golden age of American letters. In 1853 she returned to Brooklyn, New York, as drawing teacher in a large boarding school; later taking up her residence in Philadelphia as a teacher of drawing. On Christmas Day, 1854, she was baptized and received into the Catholic Church by Bishop Fitzpatrick of Boston.
