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Mary Ann H. T. (Mary Ann Hubbard Townsend) Bigelow
1792–1870
An American poet who began writing later in life, she turned family feeling, faith, and history into plainspoken verse. Her best-known book gathers poems on English monarchs alongside more personal pieces.
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The kings and queens of England, with other poems
by Mary Ann H. T. (Mary Ann Hubbard Townsend) Bigelow
About the author
Born on April 20, 1792, Mary Ann Hubbard Townsend Bigelow was an American poet. She is often listed as Mary Ann H. T. Bigelow, and sources identify her full name as Mary Ann Hubbard Townsend Bigelow.
Her best-known work is The Kings and Queens of England, with Other Poems (1853). In that volume's preface, she explains that she started writing poetry at about sixty years old, while visiting a daughter in Brooklyn, which gives her work an especially personal, late-blooming quality.
Available sources on her life are brief, but they agree that she died on March 27, 1870. A suitable verified portrait image could not be confirmed from the pages reviewed, so no profile image is included.