Brewster, Martha Wadsworth (fl. 1725–1757)
Brewster, Martha Wadsworth (fl. 1725–1757)
American colonial poet. Married Oliver Brewster, 1732.
One of only four women to publish a volume of poetry before the American Revolution, lived in Lebanon, Connecticut; her Poems on Diverse Subjects was 1st published in New London, CT (1757).
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