Keywords: Women poets
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Edna St. Vincent Millay, ca. 1940
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1940 Media: Photographic print
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Book Cover, "Songs From The Woods Of Maine," by Julia H. May, 1894
Contributed by: Mr. & Mrs. Roger Lambert through Strong Historical Society Date: 1894 Location: Strong; Farmington Media: Ink on paper
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Published women authors with ties to Maine are too numerous to count. They have made their marks in all types of literature.
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Longfellow: The Man Who Invented America
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a man and a poet of New England conscience. He was influenced by his ancestry and his Portland boyhood home and experience.
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Rum, Riot, and Reform - Quenching the Thirst
"Calling him "the poet of hopeless hope," author David Newlove wrote, "For him, alcohol was death around the clock."
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Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The Wadsworth Era: 1786-1807
"The poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was named in his memory. Alexander Scammell Wadsworth (1790–1851) was the ninth child of Peleg and Elizabeth…"
