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 |
| Flourishing | - |
| Sex | Female |
| Place of birth | Gambia |
| Place of death | Boston (Massachusetts) |
| Lived in | United States |
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| Aristocratic title | - |
| Professional or ecclesiastical title | - |
Wheatley Peters, Phyllis was ...
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| Place(s) of Residence | United States |
Author of
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| Poems on various subjects, religious and moral (1773) | 1 | 0 |
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-Circulations of Wheatley Peters, Phyllis, the person (for circulations of her works, see under each individual Work)
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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 |
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| The female advocate | Mary Scott Taylor | 1774 | - |
| 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