Wheatley Peters, Phyllis (1753 - 1784)

Short name Wheatley Peters, Phyllis
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First name Phyllis
Birth name Wheatley
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Date of birth 1753
Date of death 1784
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Sex Female
Place of birth Gambia
Place of death Boston (Mass.)
Lived in United States
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Portrait of Phillis Wheatley, sometimes attributed to Scipio Moorhead, frontispiece to Poems on Various Subjects, 1773, National Portrait Gallery
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Wheatley Peters, Phyllis was ...
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Receptions of Wheatley Peters, Phyllis, the person (for receptions of her works, see under each individual Work)
Title Author Date Type
The female advocate Mary Scott Taylor 1774 None
GTwee minbekende Amerikaansche dichteressen. Art. in De Tijd Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1852 comments on person
*Lemma in Homespun heroines and other women of distinction Brown, Hallie Quinn 1926 comments on person
Portrait of Phillis Wheatley, sometimes attributed to Scipio Moorhead, frontispiece to Poems on Various Subjects, 1773, National Portrait Gallery None is portrait of
Mentioned in: - Buck, Guide to women's literature, 1992: "The publication of Poems on various subjects, religious and moral (1773) made her the first published African-American poet". - Davis/West, Women Writers in the United States, 1996 - Brown, Hallie Quinn: Homespun heroines and other women of distinction, 1926
Place of birth uncertain: West Africa