Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784
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Name (Hebrew)
ויטלי, פיליס, 1753-1784
Name (Latin)
Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784
Other forms of name
Peters, Phillis Wheatley, 1753-1784
Peters, Phillis, 1753-1784
Wheatley, Phyllis, 1753-1784
Date of birth
1753-05-08
Date of death
1784-12-05
Place of death
London (England)
Occupation
Poets
African American women poets
Associated Language
eng
Gender
female
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Sources of Information
- Phillis Wheatley; born circa 1753, in West Africa (present-day Senegal or Gambia); died December 5, 1784, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.; the first black woman poet of note in the United States ( (Britannica online, March 27, 2015) )
- Heaven the residence of the saints, 1771:title page (an elegiac poem ... by Phillis, a Negro girl of seventeen years of age, belonging to Mr. J. Wheatley of Boston)
- Phyllis Wheatley, c1992.
- The poems of Phillis Wheatley, 1989
- Wikipedia, viewed Sept. 6, 2012(Phillis Wheatley (May 8, 1753--Dec. 5, 1784) was the first African-American poet and first African-American woman to publish a book)
- Her Poems.
- Sherrow, V. Phyllis Wheatley, c1992.
- English Wikipedia website, viewed Sept. 6, 2012(Phillis Wheatley (May 8, 1753--December 5, 1784) was the first African-American poet and first African-American woman to publish a book; died in London, England)