‘Early to bed’
Source: She Wields a Pen: American Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century (University of Iowa Press, 1997)
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Poet Mary Mapes Dodge 1831–1905
POET’S REGION U.S., New England
Subjects Living, Time & Brevity, Relationships, Home Life
Poetic Terms Rhymed Stanza, Nursery Rhymes
Biography
Poet Mary Mapes Dodge was born into an academic family in New York, and was educated at home by tutors. At 20 she married a lawyer with whom she had two children. After her husband’s death seven years later, Dodge began her writing career to support her sons. Dodge’s most famous children’s novel, Hans Brinker; or, The Silver Skates (1865), was inspired by historian John Lothrop Motley’s The Rise of the Dutch Republic and The . . .
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SUBJECT Living, Time & Brevity, Relationships, Home Life
POET’S REGION U.S., New England
Poetic Terms Rhymed Stanza, Nursery Rhymes
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