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Perez Morton
Standard Name: Morton, Perez
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Sarah Wentworth Morton | Sarah Wentworth Apthorp married the lawyer and patriot politician Perez Morton, who had already gained a name for himself as a rousing public speaker. Pendleton, Emily, and Milton Ellis. Philenia. University of Maine Press, 1931. 25 American National Biography. http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Sarah Wentworth Morton | Perez Morton, husband of SWM, died at over the age of eighty-five. Stevens, Peter F. “It Happened in Dorchester: A Literary Lionness and a Whiff of Scandal”. Dorchester Reporter, 24 Jan. 2002. Pendleton, Emily, and Milton Ellis. Philenia. University of Maine Press, 1931. 102 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Sarah Wentworth Morton | A much more painful scandal brewed when Perez Morton embarked on an adulterous affair with his wife's sister Fanny, when she came to stay with the family in about 1786. Fanny bore his baby... |
| Publishing | Judith Sargent Murray | 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.... |
| Residence | Sarah Wentworth Morton | SWM and her husband moved from Boston to Dorchester (later Roxbury), Massachusetts, to a house which (according to American National Biography) they had built to Sarah's design. Stevens, Peter F. “It Happened in Dorchester: A Literary Lionness and a Whiff of Scandal”. Dorchester Reporter, 24 Jan. 2002. Pendleton, Emily, and Milton Ellis. Philenia. University of Maine Press, 1931. 68 American National Biography. http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html. |
| Textual Production | Sarah Wentworth Morton | William Hill Brown's epistolary, sentimental The Power of Sympathy; or, The Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth, the first American novel, presented an episode of seduction and suicide modelled on that of... |
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