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Adams, Hannah (1755 - 1831)

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Short name Adams, Hannah
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First name Hannah
Birth name Adams
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Date of birth 1755
Date of death 1831
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Sex Female
Place of birth Medfield (Mass.)
Place of death Brookline (Massachusetts)
Lived in United States
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Religion / ideology Protestant
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Place(s) of Residence United States
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*History of Jews (1815) 1 0
A Memoir of Miss Hannah Adams (1832) 0 0

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Receptions of Adams, Hannah, the person

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Francis Alexander, Portrait of Hannah Adams, c. 1828 None is portrait of

Mentioned in: - Buck, Guide to women's literature, 1992: "She became one of the first North-American women to pursue writing as a career". - Davis/West, Women Writers in the United States, 1996: "probably the first professional woman writer in the United States" Cf. Helen Gray Cone 1891 (cf art. Visser in Van Dijk e.a., "I have heard about you", 2004)

distant cousin, President John Adams.