Lucretia Maria Davidson (September 27, 1808 – August 27, 1825) was an American poet of the early 19th century.
She was born in Plattsburgh, New York on September 27, 1808. Her father, Oliver Davidson, was a physician, and her mother, Margaret Miller, was an author. She was sent at the age of four to Plattsburg Academy, where she learned to read, later developing an interest in such authors as Oliver Goldsmith and William Shakespeare. She learned ...
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Lucretia Maria Davidson (September 27, 1808 – August 27, 1825) was an American poet of the early 19th century.
She was born in Plattsburgh, New York on September 27, 1808. Her father, Oliver Davidson, was a physician, and her mother, Margaret Miller, was an author. She was sent at the age of four to Plattsburg Academy, where she learned to read, later developing an interest in such authors as Oliver Goldsmith and William Shakespeare. She learned to write at age seven. Davidson was an extremely precocious child, and she wrote her first known poem, Epitaph on a Robin, at the age of nine. Davidson died at Plattsburgh on August 27, 1825, at the age of 16 years and 11 months of tuberculosis, then known as consumption, although it has been speculated that her condition may have been linked to anorexia nervosa. Davidson wrote prolifically in her short life, and her surviving poems, of various lengths, number 278.
Davidson was praised, with varying levels of enthusiasm, by such notable...
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