George Washington

CM stayed ten days with George Washington at his estate of Mount Vernon, Virginia.

Now back in Plymouth, she visited Boston to see the book through the press. Her title-page quotation from Pope ironically places herself, by implication, among the dunces. She dedicated the collection to George Washington .

She had written once already about this Boston landmark. She dedicated this later poem, an ambitious attempt at a national epic, to the Citizen-Soldiers who fought for Washington and Freedom. She planned to produce...

By the end of her life MG had lived longer in the USA than in Britain. In the context of her American incarnation, she writes of the capacity to shift from one national viewpoint...

ESVM was born on George Washington 's birthday in Rockland, a small town in Maine, the eldest of three sisters.