Author:Phillis Wheatley

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Phillis Wheatley (1753–1784)

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Phillis Wheatley

Works

• Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral 1773 (London: by A. Bell, for Cox and Berry, Boston)
• Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and Slave 1834

Individual poems

• "On being brought from Africa to America"
• "On the Death of Mr. Snider Murder'd by Richardson"
• "On Virtue"
• "To a Lady on the Death of Her Husband"
• "To His Excellency, General Washington" written for Washington, 1775

About

• “Wheatley, Phillis” in The American Cyclopædia, 1879.
• “Wheatley, Phillis,” Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1889.
• “Wheatley, Phillis,” The New International Encyclopædia. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1905.
• “Wheatley, Phillis” in The Encyclopedia Americana. New York, 1920.

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.