George Washington

Stock patriotic attitudes are voiced in The Gallant English Tar, and The Banner of Union, verging on the jingoistic in We'll Stand to our Guns and Hurrah! for our Riflemen! Clearly no coherent...

The title-page quotes Samuel Johnson asserting that an author has nothing but his own merits to stand or fall on. The Birth of Genius, an irregular ode, offers advice to my son to love...

These poems include political subject-matter, for instance in the celebratory Ode to the President, On his visiting the Northern States. This addresses Washington as Columbia's guardian God, who emulates and surpasses the military...

In the year after this poem appeared, composer and organist Hans Gram (who had already set to music SWM 's Ode to the President) created an orchestral score (one of the earliest in America)...

Judith Stevens (later JSM ) wrote to her brother Winthrop (then encamped with Washington 's army at Valley Forge, at a low point in the War of Independence) to express her fears and her...

AB may be the author of a poem published anonymously by Mundell in 1800, Epistle from the Marquis de LaFayette to General Washington.

As well as landscape, she also meditates here on space, literature, democracy, superstition, propaganda, national belonging, and identity. (The old woman said I am I because my little dog knows me, but the dog...

A measure of her success as a writer is the fact that in 1834 CMS was one of only two women (the other was Martha Washington ) chosen for inclusion in the National Portrait Gallery...

The set was dedicated to John Adams , and subscribers included the dedicatee, many of the author's relations, Sarah Wentworth Morton and her husband , Susanna Haswell Rowson , and George and Martha Washington ....

AS was at first a strong supporter of the cause of American independence. Her Monody on Major André reflects disillusion with the colonists following their treaty with France, which seemed to her to negate or...

An equally suspect anecdote from the same source represents TT fainting away when she heard of George Washington 's death (in December 1799), as did several ladies who were present and who heard the news...

EGF , as an American patriot married to a British officer, now found her political position almost untenable. She seems to have hoped to become a mediator between the two sides, though she made herself...

An ode by JSM on the death of George Washington was sung at the First Universal Church, Boston.

CM thought of writing a history of the American War of Independence. According to Mary Hays in Female Biography, she possessed materials communicated to her by Washington himself, but that the decline in her...

The Critical thought this even better than AS 's Elegy on Captain Cook: one of the most pleasing little poems which we ever perused. It doubted the wisdom, however, of printing the letters.