18th-century American women writers

The list 18th-century American women writers includes Sarah Ewing Hall, Judith Sargent Murray, Eliza Lucas, Phillis Wheatley and Hannah Griffitts. The list consists of 57 members and 1 sublist.

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Abigail Adams

First Lady of the United States from 1797 to 1801

Overview: Abigail Adams (née Smith; November 22 1744 – October 28, 1818) was the wife of John Adams and the mother of John Quincy Adams. She is now designated the first Second Lady and second First Lady ...

Date of birth: 11 November 1744

Date of death: 28 October 1818

Age: 73 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: First Lady

Gender: Female

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A Woman of the Century 883T

18th-century American women 43T

19th-century American women 232T
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Sarah Ewing Hall

American poet

Overview: Sarah Ewing Hall (October 30, 1761 – April 8, 1830) was an American educator, poet, and essayist of Christian literature.

Date of birth: 30 October 1761

Date of death: 8 April 1830

Age: 68 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Educator

Gender: Female

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18th-century essayists 64T

19th-century American women writers 1,226T

American women educators 1,517T
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Rebecca Hammond Lard

Indiana female poet

Overview: Rebecca Hammond Lard (Laird) (born Rebecca Hammond; March 7, 1772 – September 28, 1855), is called by some critics "the first poet in Indiana". Her poetry reflects on the lives of the early people in ...

Date of birth: 7 March 1772

Date of death: 28 September 1855

Age: 83 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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People from Reading, Vermont 1T

19th-century American women writers 1,226T

People from Vernon, Indiana 11T
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Susannah Willard Johnson

Captive of Native Americans and author of a captivity narrative

Overview: Susannah Willard Johnson (February 20, 1729/30 – November 27, 1810) was an Anglo-American woman who was captured with her family during an Abenaki Indian raid on Charlestown, New Hampshire in August 1754 ...

Date of birth: 1729

Date of death: 27 November 1810

Age: 81 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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American women memoirists 620T

American women non-fiction writers 2,184T

19th-century American women writers 1,226T
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Winifred Gales

American writer

Overview: Winifred Marshall Gales (10 July 1761 – 26 June 1839) was an American novelist and memoirist. Gales was born in 1761 in Newark-upon-Trent, England, the daughter of John Marshall. She wrote the first novel ...

Date of birth: 10 July 1761

Date of death: 26 June 1839

Age: 77 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Female

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American women memoirists 620T

American women non-fiction writers 2,184T

Novelists from North Carolina 109T
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Martha Wadsworth Brewster

American poet

Overview: Martha Wadsworth Brewster (April 1, 1710 – c.) was an 18th-century American poet and writer. She is one of only four colonial women who published volumes of their verse before the American Revolution ...

Date of birth: 1 April 1710

Date of death: 1757

Age: 46 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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Colonial American women 79T

18th-century American poets 39T

18th-century American writers 62T
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Ann Eliza Bleecker

American poet, correspondent (1752–1783)

Overview: Ann Eliza Bleecker (October 1752 – November 23, 1783) was an American poet and correspondent. Following a New York upbringing, Bleecker married John James Bleecker, a New Rochelle lawyer, in 1769. He ...

Date of birth: 1752

Date of death: 23 November 1783

Age: 31 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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Novelists from New York (state) 1,277T

People from Schaghticoke, New York 13T

18th-century American poets 39T
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Mercy Harbison

Overview: Mary Jane Harbison (March 18, 1770 – December 9, 1837) was a young American woman living in the decades immediately following the Revolutionary War. She was captured by Native Americans in May 1792. Massy ...

Date of birth: 18 March 1770

Date of death: 9 December 1837

Age: 67 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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American women non-fiction writers 2,184T

Colonial American women in warfare 8T

Writers of captivity narratives 21T
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Hannah Adams

United States author

Overview: Hannah Adams (October 2, 1755 – December 15, 1831) was an American author of books on comparative religion and early United States history. She was born in Medfield, Massachusetts and died in Br ...

Date of birth: 2 October 1755

Date of death: 15 December 1831

Age: 76 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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American women memoirists 620T

A Woman of the Century 883T

18th-century American non-fiction writers 9T
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Judith Sargent Murray

American writer

Overview: Judith Sargent Stevens Murray (May 1, 1751 – June 9, 1820) was an early American advocate for women's rights, an essay writer, playwright, poet, and letter writer. She was one of the first American pr ...

Date of birth: 1 May 1751

Date of death: 9 June 1820

Age: 69 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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18th-century American philosophers 8T

19th-century American philosophers 47T

Philosophers from Massachusetts 34T
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Esther Edwards Burr

American writer (1732-1758)

Overview: Esther Edwards Burr (February 13, 1732 – April 7, 1758) was the mother of 3rd U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr, Jr. and the wife of Princeton University President Aaron Burr, Sr. whom she married in 1752 ...

Date of birth: 13 February 1732

Date of death: 7 April 1758

Age: 26 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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18th-century diarists 67T

Mothers of vice presidents of the United States 11T

Jonathan Edwards family 10T
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Ann Smith Franklin

American colonial newspaper printer and publisher

Overview: Ann Smith Franklin (October 2, 1696 – April 16, 1763) was an American colonial newspaper printer and publisher. She inherited the business from her husband, James Franklin, brother of Benjamin Franklin ...

Date of birth: 2 October 1696

Date of death: 16 April 1763

Age: 66 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Journalist

Gender: Female

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18th-century American businesswomen 28T

Colonial American women 79T

Women printers 38T
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Lucy Terry

American poet

Overview: Lucy Terry Prince, often credited as simply Lucy Terry (c. 1730–1821), was brought to Rhode Island as a slave from Africa. Her future husband purchased her freedom before their marriage in 1756. She c ...

Date of birth: 1730

Date of death: 11 July 1821

Age: 91 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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18th-century American slaves 121T

19th-century African-American women 126T

18th-century African-American women 20T
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Eliza Lucas

American planter and agriculturalist (1722–1793)

Overview: Elizabeth "Eliza" Lucas Pinckney (December 28, 1722 – May 27, 1793) transformed agriculture in colonial South Carolina, where she developed indigo as one of its most important cash crops. Its cultivation ...

Date of birth: 1722

Date of death: 1793

Age: 70 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Socialite

Gender: Female

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18th-century American women scientists 4T

18th-century American businesswomen 28T

18th-century American landowners 22T
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Mercy Otis Warren

American writer

Overview: Mercy Otis Warren (September 14, [September 25, New Style] 1728 – October 19, 1814) was a poet, playwright and pamphleteer during the American Revolution. During the years before the American Revolution ...

Date of birth: 14 September 1728

Date of death: 19 October 1814

Age: 86 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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Pseudonymous women writers 644T

Burials at Burial Hill (Plymouth) 12T

19th-century American women writers 1,226T
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Phillis Wheatley

African-born American poet (1753–1784)

Overview: Phillis Wheatley Peters, also spelled Phyllis and Wheatly (c.– December 5, 1784) was an American author who is considered the first African-American author of a published book of poetry. Born in West ...

Date of birth: 1753

Date of death: 5 December 1784

Age: 31 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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African-American expatriates in the United Kingdom 10T

18th-century American slaves 112T

Literate American slaves 19T
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Eleanor Agnes Lee

Daughter of Robert E. Lee

Overview: Eleanor Agnes Lee (February 27, 1841 – October 15, 1873) was an American diarist and poet. The fifth child of General Robert E. Lee and Mary Anna Custis Lee, she was a member of the prominent Lee family ...

Date of birth: 27 February 1841

Date of death: 15 October 1873

Age: 32 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Socialite

Gender: Female

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Burials at University Chapel 9T

19th-century diarists 161T

Tuberculosis deaths in Virginia 10T
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Hannah Heaton

American diarist & farmer (1721–1794)

Overview: Hannah Heaton was a New England woman known for chronicling in a diary her experiences during the Great Awakening in the northern American royal colonies.

Date of death: 1794

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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Grace Growden Galloway

diarist

Overview: Grace Growden Galloway (1727–1782) was the wife of British loyalist Joseph Galloway. In the wake of the American Revolution, she faced severe hardships, including the confiscation of her property due to ...

Date of birth: 1727

Date of death: 1782

Age: 54 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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Loyalists in the American Revolution from Pennsylvania 19T

American women non-fiction writers 2,184T

Upper class culture in the United States 14T
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Katharine Greene Amory

American journalist

Overview: Katharine Greene Amory (Nov. 22, 1731–April 22, 1777) was an 18th-century Bostonian known for the journal she kept during the American Revolution. It is valued by historians for its record of daily life ...

Date of birth: 22 November 1731

Date of death: 22 April 1777

Age: 45 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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