Elinor begins to suffer from depression and Frost�s health
starts to decline. His mother ends up dieing from cancer and
is also buried in Lawrence.
1901- His grandfather dies and with the will Frost receives five
hundred dollars annuity and the use of Derry farm, after ten
years the annuity will be raised to eight hundred dollars and will
become owner of the farm.
1902- Frost second son Carol in born on May 27.
1903- Frost�s short story �Trap nest� published in The Eastern
Poultryman. On June 27, second daughter Irma is born.
1905- On March 28, his third daughter Marjorie is born.
1906- Frost beginning a part-time teaching job, teaching English
literature at Pinkerton Academy in Derry. The Derry
Enterprise publishes his poem �The Tuft of Flowers.�
1907- On June 18, fourth daughter Elinor Bettina is born and dies on
June 21.
1909- His poem �Into Mine Own� is issued in New England Magazine.
1910- Frost improves the Pinkerton Academy English curriculum
and starts a program that focuses on informal, conversational
teaching style.
1911- Frost takes an education and psychology teaching job and
State Normal School and moves his family to Plymouth.
He ends up selling the Derry Farm.
1912- Frost decides to focus on his writing and moves his family
to England. He submits A Boy�s Will to London firm.
1913- On April 1, A Boy�s Will is published.
1914- On May 15, North of Boston is published. Finds out that Henry
Holt and Company will publish is books in the United States.
1915- On February 20, North of Boston is published in the U.S. and
he returns to America. He purchases a farm in Franconia,
New Hampshire and Elinor has a miscarriage.
1916- Frost receives a two thousand dollar offer to teach on semester
at Amherst College form Alexander Meiklejohn.
1917- His teaching job at Amherst got extended and his daughter
Lesley attends Wellesley College.
1918- Lesley drops out of college after her first year to work in an
aircraft factory.
1920- Frost quits his job at Amherst having arguments with Meiklejohn
and also wants to spend more time on his writings. His sister
Jeanie gets arrested and is put into a state mental hospital in
Augusta, Maine.
1921- Frost gets a job at University of Michigan to advise students.
1923- Select Poems and New Hampshire is published. Frost returns
back to Amherst College after Micklejohn leaves as a professor
of English. He meets with physicist Neils Bohr and talks
about the quantum theory.
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