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1771, Oct 11 1790-1798 1801, Jan 9
She was an American playwright, poet and political activist. She was committed to establishing her mother's reputation as a writer as well as her own. She started publishing her mother's poetry, what was left of it, in The New York Magazine in 1790. Similarly she began publishing her own essays and poems in the same periodical. Her reputation as a poet grew and for a few years she was considered the "premier poet" of the magazine. She had strong political views and concentrated her writings around the anti-slavery movement, her support of the French Revolution and her disapproval of capital punishment.
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Margaretta Faugeres 1771, Oct 11 1790
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Francis Hopkinson 1737, Sep 21 1761 1791 1791, May 9 designed the first official American flag. He was an author, a composer, and one of the signers o... Carl Michael Bellman 1740, Feb 4 1768 1791 1795, Feb 11 a Swedish songwriter, composer, musician, poet and entertainer. He is a central figure in the Swe... George Whatley unknown 1772 1791 unknown a contemporary, friend and correspondent of Benjamin Franklin. He was also Vice-President (1772-1... John Burgoyne 1722, Feb 24 1743 1792 1792, Aug 4 a British army officer, politician and dramatist. He first saw action during the Seven Years' War... George Mason 1725, Nov 30 1747 1792 1792, Oct 7 a Virginia planter and politician, and a delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787, ... Jackson Johonnet unknown 1793 1793 unknown the pseudonymous author of a spurious Indian captivity narrative that enjoyed much popularity in ... Maximilien Robespierre 1758, May 6 1789 1794 1794, Jul 28 a French lawyer and politician, and one of the best-known and most influential figures of the Fre... Henry Emlyn 1729 1781 1795 1815, Dec 10 an English architect. Emlyn published A Proposition for a new Order in Architecture, with rules f... Sir William Chambers 1723, Feb 23 1740 1796 1796, Mar 10 a Scottish-Swedish architect, based in London. Among his best-known works are Somerset House, Lon... Horace Walpole 1717, Sep 24 1737 1797 1797, Mar 2 an English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician. He had Strawberry Hill... Giacomo Casanova 1725, Apr 2 1742 1797 1798, Jun 4 an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice. His autobiography, Histoire de ma v... Benjamin Banneker 1731, Nov 9 1753 1797 1806, Oct 9 a free African American almanac author, surveyor, naturalist and farmer. His knowledge of astrono... Martha Mears unknown 1797 1797 unknown an eighteenth-century midwife and author. Mears was a midwife, mother, and author in London, Engl... Ashley Bowen 1728, Jan 8 1741 1799 1813 the first American sailor to write an autobiography. Although Bowen's career as a sailor was not ... John Andree unknown 1780 1799 unknown an English surgeon. Andree published several books, chiefly on surgical subjects. Through not bei... Mercy Harbison unknown 1790 1799 unknown a young American woman living in the decades immediately following the Revolutionary War, who was... Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson 1737, Feb 3 1764 1801 1801, Feb 23 an American poet and writer; her main literary project was the translation of Telemachus from the... John Adams [2] 1735, Oct 30 1797 1801 1826, Jul 4 an American lawyer, author, statesman, and diplomat. He served as the second President of the Uni... Eliza Bromley unknown 1784 1803 unknown an English novelist and translator. Nothing is really known about the details of her life. Mrs B... Thomas Paine [2] 1736, Jan 29 1761 1804 1809, Jun 8 an English-American political activist, philosopher, political theorist and revolutionary. One of... Friedrich Schiller 1759, Nov 10 1781 1804 1805, May 9 a German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, and playwright. During the last seventeen years... Mercy Otis Warren 1728, Sep 14 1765 1805 1814, Oct 19 a political writer and propagandist of the American Revolution. In the eighteenth century, topics... Jacob Bailey 1731, Apr 16 1755 1808 1808, Jul 26 an author and clergyman of the Church of England, active in New England and Nova Scotia. Bailey w... Jean-Nicolas Demeunier 1751, Mar 15 1789 1808 1814, Feb 2 a French author and politician. It was as a member of the Constitutional Committee that Démeunie... Xosefa Xovellanos 1745, Jun 4 1740 1809 1807 the younger sister of Asturian politician illustrated Gaspar Melchor de Xovellanos and prominent ... Joseph Quesnel 1746, Nov 15 1766 1809 1809, Jul 2/3 a French Canadian composer, poet, and playwright. Among his works were two operas, Colas et Co... William Batt 1744, Jun 18 1770 1809 1812, Feb 9 an English physician, chemist, and botanist. On completing his studies he returned to England, bu... Antal Amade de Varkony unknown 1790 1809 unknown a Hungarian Count and Prefect of Zagreb in Croatia, who established the first public theatre in t... William Felton [2] unknown 1790 1809 unknown a London coachmaker from 36 Leather Lane in Holborn, and 254 Oxford Street near Grosvenor Square,... Jean-Dominique Cassini 1748 Jun 30 1768 1810 1845, Oct 18 a French astronomer, he succeeded his father as director of the observatory. He published in 177... Charles Brockden Brown 1771, Jan 17 1793 1810 1810, Feb 22 an American novelist, historian, and editor of the Early National period, is generally regarded b... Louis Antoine de Bougainville 1729, Nov 12 1753 1811 1811, Aug 31 a French admiral and explorer. A contemporary of the British explorer James Cook, he took part in... Paul Revere 1734, Dec 21 1756 1811 1818, May 10 an American silversmith, engraver, early industrialist, and a Patriot in the American Revolution.... Joel Barlow 1754, Mar 24 1778 1812 1812, Dec 26 an American poet and diplomat, and French politician. In politics, he supported the French Revolu... Shneur Zalman of Liadi 1745, Sep 4 1780 1812 1812, Dec 15 an Orthodox Rabbi, and the founder and first (Lubavitcher) Rebbe of Chabad (1780–1812), a branc... Samuel Bard 1742, Apr 1 1765 1813 1821, May 24 an American physician who founded the first medical school in New York City and the second medica... Samuel Osgood 1747, Feb 3 1771 1813 1813, Aug 12 an American merchant and statesman born in Andover, Massachusetts, currently a part of North Ando... Alexander Cumming 1733 1750 1814 1814, Mar 8 a Scottish watchmaker and instrument inventor, who was the first to patent a design of the flush ... David Ramsay 1749, Apr 2 1773 1815 1815, May 8 an American physician, public official, and historian from Charleston, South Carolina. He was one... Benjamin Smith Barton 1766, Feb 10 1789 1815 1815, Dec 19 an American botanist, naturalist, and physician. Barton corresponded with naturalists throughout ... Friedrich Maximilian Klinger 1752, Feb 17 1773 1817 1831, Feb 25 a German dramatist and novelist. His play Sturm und Drang (1776) gave name to the Sturm und Drang... Nathan Drake 1766, Jan 15 1780 1817 1836 an English essayist and physician. Drake was apprenticed to a doctor in York in 1780, and in 1786... Jane Austen 1775, Dec 16 1787 1817 1817, Jul 18 an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a pl... Anne Seymour Damer 1749, Nov 8 1784 1818 1828, May 28 an English sculptor and novelist. During the period 1784–1818, Damer exhibited 32 works as an h... Jacob Axelsson Lindblom 1746, Jul 27 1779 1819 1819, Feb 15 a Swedish scholar who eventually became archbishop of Uppsala for the Lutheran Swedish Church, a ... Mary Ann Hanway unknown 1790 1819 unknown an eighteenth century travel writer and novelist. She has been proposed as the anonymous author o... Charles Holt unknown 1797 1819 unknown printer, political provacateur Henry Fuseli 1741, Feb 7 1761 1820 1825, Apr 17 a Swiss painter, draughtsman and writer on art who spent much of his life in Britain. Many of his... Moses Hoge 1752, Feb 15 1787 1820 1820, Jul 5 a Presbyterian minister and educator. He served as the sixth President of Hampden–Sydney Colleg... Joaquim Machado de Castro 1731, Jun 19 1770 1822 1822, Nov 17 one of Portugal's foremost sculptors, and a celebrated figure throughout Europe in the eighteenth... Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre 1749, Sep 19 1788 1822 1822, Aug 19 a French mathematician and astronomer. He was also director of the Paris Observatory, and author ... Frodsham Hodson 1770, Jun 7 1791 1822 1822, Jan 18 an English churchman and academic, the Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford from 1809. He edite... Thomas Jefferson 1743, Apr 2 1767 1824 1826, Jul 4 an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and ... Hannah Adams 1755, Oct 2 1784 1824 1831, Dec 15 an American author of books on comparative religion and early United States history. She was born... Mary Charlton unknown 1794 1824 unknown a novelist and translator who wrote at least ten novels between 1794 and 1824. She also translate... William Hull 1753, Jun 24 1775 1825 1825, Nov 29 an American soldier and politician. He fought in the American Revolution and was appointed as Gov... Claude Henri de Rouvroy 1760, Oct 17 1779 1825 1825, May 19 a French political and economic theorist and businessperson whose thought played a substantial ro... Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749, Mar 23 1771 1827 1827, Mar 5 an influential French scholar whose work was important to the development of mathematics, statist... Franz Xaver von Zach 1754, Jun 4 1780 1827 1832, Sep 2 a Hungarian astronomer born in Pest, Hungary. Zach published Tables of the Sun (Gotha, 179... William Maclure 1763, Oct 27 1782 1827 1840, Mar 23 an Americanized Scottish geologist, cartographer and philanthropist. He is known as the 'father o... Luigi Romanelli 1751, Jul 21 1785 1828 1839, Mar 1 an Italian opera librettist. Romanelli was born in Rome. He wrote tens of librettos, most of them... Hannah Webster Foster 1758, Sep 10 1770 1829 1840, Apr 17 an American novelist. Her epistolary novel, The Coquette; or, The History of Eliza Wharton ... Sir Humphry Davy 1778, Dec 17 1795 1829 1829, May 29 a Cornish chemist and inventor, who is best remembered today for his discoveries of several alkal... Jonathan Swift 1667, Nov 30 1690 183 1745, Oct 19 an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Torie... Richard Allen [2] 1760, Feb 14 1777 1831 1831, Mar 26 a minister, educator, writer, and one of America's most active and influential black leaders. In ... Marianne Ehrenstrom 1773, Dec 9 1790 1831 1867, Jan 4 a Swedish writer, singer, painter, pianist, culture personality, memorialist, principal and lady-... John Watkins [2] unknown 1792 1831 unknown an English miscellaneous writer, known as a biographer. He is most famous for being the author of... Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770, Aug 27 1793 1831 1831, Nov 14 a German philosopher and an important figure of German Idealism. He achieved wide renown in his d... Sir Walter Scott 1771, Aug 15 1796 1831 1832, Sep 21 a Scottish historical novelist, playwright and poet with many contemporary readers in Europe, Au... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749, Aug 28 1770 1832 1832, Mar 22 a German writer and statesman. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a varie... William Dunlap 1766, Feb 19 1783 1834 1839, Sep 28 a pioneer of American theater. He was a producer, playwright, and actor, as well as a historian. ... Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772, Oct 21 1792 1834 1834, Jul 25 an English poet, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a f... William Wirt 1772, Nov 8 1792 1834 1834, Feb 18 an American author and statesman who is credited with turning the position of United States Attor... James Hogg 1770 1797 1835 1835, Nov 21 a Scottish poet, novelist and essayist who wrote in both Scots and English. As a young man he wor... Robert Southey 1774, Aug 12 1791 1837 1843, Mar 21 an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the so-called "Lake Poets", and Poet Laureate for ... Christian Heinrich Nebbien 1778 1783 1839 1841 a German-born landscaping architect, mainly active in Austria. He also wrote a book on the metho... Solomon Southwick 1773, Dec 25 1792 1839 1839, Nov 18 a New York newspaper publisher and political figure who was a principal organizer of the Anti-Mas... Marta Helena Reenstierna 1753, Sep 16 1793 1839 1841, Jan 12 a Swedish diary writer. Her diaries were written in the period 1793–1839, and are kept at the a... Edmund Fanning [2] 1769, Jul 16 1773 1841 1841, Apr 23 an American explorer and sea captain, known as the "Pathfinder of the Pacific." As master of the ... Asher Benjamin 1773, Jun 15 1794 1841 1845, Jul 26 an American architect and author whose work transitioned between Federal style architecture and t... Noah Webster 1758, Oct 16 1781 1843 1843, May 28 an American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer... Thomas Moore 1779, May 28 1795 1846 1852, Feb 25 an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of The Min... William Wordsworth 1770, Apr 7 1787 1847 1850, Apr 23 a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Ag... Edward Boys 1749 1796 1851 1866 an English sea captain. In 1803, Boys, when in charge of a prize, was made prisoner by the French... Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen 1778, Sep 9 1796 1852 1852, Jan 13 a Baltic-German officer in the Imperial Russian Navy, cartographer and explorer, ultimately rose ... Robert Owen 1771, May 14 1792 1857 1858, Nov 17 a Welsh social reformer and one of the founders of utopian socialism and the cooperative movement... Charles Hamilton Smith 1776, Dec 26 1787 1859 1859, Sep 21 an English artist, naturalist, antiquary, illustrator, soldier, and spy. His military career bega... Rebecca Hammond Lard 1772, Mar 7 1786 194 1855, Sep 28 called by some critics "the first poet in Indiana". Her poetry reflects on the lives of the early...
