Harriet Winslow Sewall, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Harriet Winslow Sewall

American poet

Date of Birth: 20-Jun-1819

Date of Death: 20-Dec-1889

Profession: writer, poet, suffragette

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Harriet Winslow Sewall

  • Harriet Winslow Sewall (June 20, 1819 in Portland, Maine – April 19, 1889) was an American poet, and editor of the collected letters of Lydia Maria Child. Winslow was born in Portland, Maine into a Quaker family.
  • She was educated in Portland and at a boarding school in Providence, Rhode Island.
  • She was, at least in her early years, interested in transcendentalism and animal magnetism; and arguably more practically engaged with contemporary anti-slave and women's rights movements.She wrote poetry from an early age, and for many years; but apparently for her own satisfaction and without a view to publication.
  • A number of her works were published, however, and has been republished in a number of collections of American poetry.She married in 1848 Charles List, a journalist working on the Commonwealth newspaper.
  • He soon became ill, relinquishing his job and placing the burden of support on Harriet, who was assisted by her relatively wealthy family.
  • Charles died in 1856.In 1857 she married her late sister's husband the lawyer and abolitionist Samuel Edmund Sewall and in 1861 her father died, providing her with a "moderate fortune" enabling her to pursue philanthropic interests.
  • The couple divided their time between Melrose, Massachusetts and Boston, Massachusetts.
  • They were both early members of the New England Women's Club, a Women's suffrage organisation.In 1882 she arranged for publication the letters of her friend, the author Lydia Maria Child.Mr.
  • Sewall died in December 1888 at age 89.
  • She died in the following April, being struck by a train whilst crossing the Boston and Albany Railroad.A collection of her poems was published in November 1889.

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