Lowell (Amy) is born in Brookline.

The daughter of Augustus and Katherine (Bigelow) Lawrence, Amy Lowell grows up at 171 Commonwealth Avenue, attends private schools, begins her career as a poet in approximately 1910, and meets her longtime companion, actress Ada Dwyer Russell, in 1912.* A colorful figure with a fondness for cigars, Lowell publishes a number of books and promotes Modernist poetry throughout the U.S. in Europe. She dies in Brookline on May 12, 1925, and her ashes are buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery.