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Maria Gowen Brooks

Maria Gowen Brooks

American poet
Maria Gowen Brooks was an American poet. She impressed Edgar Allan Poe and the English Poet Laureate, Robert Southey, who promoted her best-known poem Zophiël. Wikipedia
Born: 1794, Medford, MA
Died: November 11, 1845 (age 51 years), Matanzas, Cuba
Books: Zóphiël; or, The bride of seven, Zóphiël; Or, the Bride of Seven. by Maria Del Occidente [pseud. ] (Maria Gowen Brooks) Ed. by Zadel Barnes Gustafson, and Idomen, Or, The Vale of Yumuri
Children: Horace Brooks
Parents: William Gowen