George Washington

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 .

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...

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...

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...

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.

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 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...

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...

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

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 ....

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)...

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...

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...

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

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