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Maria L. (Maria Louisa) Stewart

d. 1883

A poet of West Point’s Methodist Episcopal Sabbath-School, Maria L. Stewart captured cadet life, New Year celebrations, and the affectionate spirit of the military academy in her illustrated poem Our Little Brown House.

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Our little brown house, a poem of West Point : written for the New Year's festival at the cadets' Sabbath-school of the Methodist Episcopal Church, January 1, 1879

by Maria L. (Maria Louisa) Stewart

About the author

Maria Louisa Stewart is known for Our Little Brown House, A Poem of West Point, published in New York by F. Kalkhoff Jr. in 1880. The work was written for the New Year’s festival of the Cadets’ Sabbath-School at the Methodist Episcopal Church and first read there on January 1, 1879.

Written in a warm, playful style, the poem celebrates the daily life of West Point cadets, including the barracks, military ceremonies, holiday festivities, and friendships formed at the academy. Stewart originally wrote the verses for the school community and published them only after friends urged her to share them more widely. She died in 1883.