Beatrice Ravenel

Beatrice Witte Ravenel, born on August 24, 1870, in Charleston, South Carolina, was a poet affiliated with the Southern Renaissance. She is the author of one collection, The Arrow of Lightning (Harold Vinal, 1926), though her collected works were published posthumously in The Yemassee Lands: Poems of Beatrice Ravenel (University of North Carolina Press, 1969). She died on March 15, 1956.