Ann Eliza Bleecker

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Standard Name: Bleecker, Ann Eliza
Birth Name: Ann Eliza Schuyler
Married Name: Ann Eliza Bleecker
AEB , now seen as the finest American lyricist of the late eighteenth century, left only about thirty-six of her poems extant; she destroyed the rest. Two prose fictions were also published after her early death.

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Textual Features Ella Wheeler Wilcox
This poem, about 3,500 lines long, is written mostly in couplets of anapestic tretrameter with other feet like iambs and trochees here and there, many lines than run on past the rhyme-word, and with caesura...

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Bleecker, Ann Eliza. “Memoirs of Mrs. Ann Eliza Bleecker”. The Posthumous Works of Ann Eliza Bleecker, edited by Margaretta Faugeres, Printed by T. and J. Swords, 1793, p. i - xviii.
Bleecker, Ann Eliza. The History of Maria Kittle. Printed by Elisha Babcock, 1797.
Bleecker, Ann Eliza. The History of Maria Kittle. Garland, 1978.
Bleecker, Ann Eliza. The Posthumous Works of Ann Eliza Bleecker. Editor Faugeres, Margaretta, Printed by T. and J. Swords, 1793.
Bleecker, Ann Eliza. “The Story of Henry and Anne”. New-York Magazine, Vol.
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, No. 4; 5, pp. 183 - 6; 263.