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Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Hewitt
(Born: December 23, 1807 - Died: October 9, 1894)
American poet. Mary Elizabeth Moore was born in Malden, MA. Her father was a farmer, who died when Mary was only three years old. Unable to maintain the farm alone, her mother moved to Boston, where Mary spent her childhood. About 1827, she married James L. Hewitt, the brother of John Hill Hewitt. After the death of her husband, she married Russell Stebbins in 1854. (Although the year of her birth is often cited as 1818, this seems absurd as she would have married at the age of 9. She is buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, MA, but the inscription is so worn that it is virtually illegible.)
Some of her earliest work appears in the page of the Knickerbocker magazine, under the pseudonyms “Ione” and “Jane.”
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- Review of The Songs of Our Land, and Other Poems (February 1846, text “A” — Godey’s)
- Notice from “The Literati”
- “Mary E. Hewitt” (“The Literati of New York City” - No. VI) — October 1846 — Godey’s Lady’s Book
- “Mary E. Hewitt” — 1848 — Literary America (the manuscript incorporates a portion of the Songs of Our Land, and Other Poems review, but omitted from WORKS)
- “Mary E. Hewitt” (“The Literati”) — 1850 — WORKS
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- M. E. Hewitt to E. A. Poe - March 15, 1845
- E. A. Poe to M. E. Hewitt - March 20, 1845 (OS#195a/OS4#195a)
- M. E. Hewitt to E. A. Poe - March 21, 1845
- M. E. Hewitt to E. A. Poe - May 29, 1845
- M. E. Hewitt to E. A. Poe - November 10, 1845
- M. E. Hewitt to E. A. Poe - December 22, 1845
- M. E. Hewitt to E. A. Poe - April 15 (14), 1846
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- Duyckinck, E. A. and G. L., “Mary E. Hewitt,” Cyclopedia of American Literature, New York: Charles Scribner, 1856, 2:624
- Heartman, Charles F. and James R. Canny, A Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Hattiesburg, MS: The Book Farm, 1943.
- Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vols 2-3 Tales and Sketches), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978. (Second printing 1979)
- Rosenberg, Julia, “Mary Elizabeth Moore Hewitt,” American Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide from Colonial Times to the Present, ed. Lina Mainiero, New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing, 1970, 2:288-290
- Thomas, Dwight and David K. Jackson, The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849, Boston: G. K. Hall & Sons, 1987.
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[S:0 - JAS] - Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - People - Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Hewitt