Smith, Anna Young (1756–1780)
Smith, Anna Young (1756–1780)
American poet. Name variations: Anna Young; (pseudonym) Sylvia. Born Anna Young, 1756, in Philadelphia, PA; died April 3, 1780; dau. of Jane Graeme Young (died 1756); raised by aunt, Elizabeth Graeme Ferguson (poet); m. Dr. William Smith, 1775.
Wrote poems "An Ode to Gratitude, Inscribed to Miss Eliza Graeme by her Niece, Anna Young," "An Elegy to the Memory of American Volunteers" (1775), and "On Reading Swift's Works," all published posthumously.
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