Cordelia

18.5" turquoise beads.

*Each piece in our Perennial Collection is made-to-order and hand-strung. Please allow 2-4 weeks for delivery.

Henrietta Cordelia Ray was an African-American poet and teacher, most commonly known as Cordelia Ray. In 1891 Cordelia graduated from the University of the City of New York with a master's in pedagogy. She also studied French, German, Greek and Latin at the Saveneur School of Languages. She became a schoolteacher, but stopped teaching in order to write.