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Census • Person • Grizelda Elizabeth Cottnam Tonge

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1803	1825

a Nova Scotian poet and was known as the “highly-gifted songstress of Acadia.” Very little is known about her life, other than she died quite young. She was the daughter of William Cottnam Tonge, and was known for her five surviving works.

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Works:	“Lines composed at midnight . . . occasioned by the recollection of my sisters,” “To my dear grandmother, on her 80th birth day” (Poem to her Great Grandmother Deborah How Cottnam ("Portia"), who was also a poet.) more	“Lines composed at midnight . . . occasioned by the recollection of my sisters,” “To my dear grandmother, on her 80th birth day” (Poem to her Great Grandmother Deborah How Cottnam ("Portia"), who was also a poet.) “A hymn of praise” “Lines . . . composed in the church yard of Windsor, N.S., . . .” “Extempore lines, occasioned by seeing the corpse of Mary, youngest daughter of the Hon. James Fraser. . . .” less