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Author: MUZZY, Harriet

Biography:

MUZZY, Harriet (b 1789: ancestry.com)

She was a native of Rhode Island, a teacher, and a widow by 1821 when her one book of poems appeared. Her husband's name may have been Frederic; they had at least two daughters, one of whom died young, but one--later Harriet Kile--who was able to give her mother a home in her old age. Muzzy gained a reputation as a magazine writer in the 1820s and continued to contribute to New York periodicals even after she secured a position as literary editor of a women's magazine in Philadelphia in 1827. The 1855 Census records her living with her daughter's family in New York but no date of death has been found. (ancestry.com 17 Apr. 2020; Sandra Roff and Douglas Duchin, "Mrs. Muzzy--Who Was She?" American Periodicals 8 [1998]: 45-59)

 

Books written (1):

New York: printed by F. W. Ritter, 1821