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	Maria Gowen Brooks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Maria Gowen (or Gowan) Brooks (1794 - 1845) was an American poetess.
		Brooks died, and Maria went to live with her brother on his coffee plantation in Manzanas, Cuba.
		Brooks began a correspondence with the English Poet Laureate, Robert Southey, who praised her work heartily and gave her the pseudonym "Maria Del Occidente" (Maria of the West).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maria_Gowen_Brooks (627 words)

	Maria Gowen Brooks
		Brooks, a Boston merchant, to whom she was already betrothed, completed her education and then married her.
		Brooks died in 1823, and his widow went to live with an uncle in Cuba, whose death soon afterward gave her a settled income.
		Brooks lived for some time near West Point, where her son was first a student and afterward assistant professor, and her house was a favorite resort of the officers of the academy.
	www.famousamericans.net /mariagowenbrooks (977 words)

	John Gowen, [William Alexander1] son of
		William Gowen was married April 29, 1772 to Eleanor Cutter, according to "Vital Records of Medford, Massachusetts." She was born August 7, 1753 at Medford to Ebenezer Cutter and Eleanor Floyd Cutter.
		Mary Abigail "Maria" Gowen, daughter of William Gowen and Eleanor Cutter Gowen, was born in 1794 in Medford.
		Brooks was stationed at the Academy from 1836 to 1839, and Mary Abigail "Maria" Gowen Brooks lived with him.
	bz.llano.net /gowen/dud/manuscript/Gowenms080.htm (5390 words)

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		Brooks, a wealthy Boston merchant, and soon after married to him; and, after reverses of fortune resulting in poverty, she turned her attention to the definite expression of her genius, and at twenty had written a poem in seven cantos, which was never published.
		Maria Gowen Brooks to Medford, says, "I have a dim recollection of a lady walking out at odd hours, and dressed in white at odd seasons, and of being told that she was Mrs.
		Brooks, I doubt not, ahvays has been, and still is, haunted by the feeling, that, if she had been mated with one capable of esteeming and loving her as she deserved to be esteemed and loved, she would have been one of the happiest of God's creatures.
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	AllRefer.com - Maria Gowen Brooks (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Maria Gowen Brooks[gou´un] Pronunciation Key, 1795?–1845, American poet, b.
		Her first collection of verse, Judith, Esther, and Other Poems (1820), was praised by Southey, who named her "Maria del Occidente," which she later used as a pseudonym.
		While living in Cuba she wrote the epic Zophiel; or, The Bride of Seven (1833) and Idomen; or, The Vale of Yumuri (1843).
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/Brooks-M.html (192 words)

	MARIA BROOKS (1794 or 1795 – 1845)
		As a child in a prosperous Massachusetts family, Mary (Gowen) Brooks impressed her parents and their friends with her uncanny skill at memorizing and reciting poetry.
		Betrothed to John Brooks upon the death of her father in 1809, she moved with to Maine, where she lamented her own passionless marriage and fell in love with a Canadian army officer.
		Her close friend and fellow poet Robert Southey, who affectionately invented her pseudonym "Maria del Occidente," offered to supervise the publication of the rest of Zóphiël, and he encouraged her to write a novel based on her life while she resided at his home in England.
	www.librarycompany.org /women/portraits/brooks.htm (296 words)

	American Poetry Full-Text Database: Bibliography
		Brooks, Charles Timothy 1813-1883 [1855], [Original Hymn, in] Free Agency and Moral Inability Reconciled: a sermon preached at the installation of Rev. Charles Lowe, as Pastor of the North Church in Salem, Massachusetts, September 27, 1855.
		Brooks, Charles Timothy 1813-1883 [1866], [Seeing and not seeing, in] One hundred choice selections in poetry and prose, both new and old: embracing the most popular patriotic effusions of the day, the rarest poetical gems, the finest specimens of oratory, and a fund of mirth and humor.
		Brooks, Charles Timothy 1813-1883 [1873], [Rhymed reminiscences, in] The first centenary of the North Church and Society, in Salem, Massachusetts.
	www.lib.uchicago.edu /efts/AmPo1/AmPo.bib.html (16955 words)

	Maria Gowen Brooks (c.1794-1845)
		After the death of her father in 1809, she came under the guardianship of John Brooks, a Boston merchant and the widower of her elder sister Lucretia.
		In 1831 Brooks was in England and spent several weeks as Southey's guest.
		He undertook to supervise the publication in London of Zophiel, which appeared in 1833 under the name "Maria del Occidente." By that time she had returned to America, and in 1834 she published a private edition of Zophiel in Boston.
	www.nagasaki-gaigo.ac.jp /ishikawa/amlit/b/brooks19ro.htm (515 words)

	UVa Library: Early American Fiction Collection
		Maria Gowen Brooks, also known as Maria del Occidente, was born in Massachusetts about 1795.
		Brooks's principal works of poetry are Zophiel, or The Bride of Seven, based on the story of Sara in the Book of Tobit, and Idomen, or the Vale of Yumuri, which is partly autobiographical.
		Brooks spent time in New York and Cuba as well as in her native state.
	etext.lib.virginia.edu /eaf/authors/mgb.htm (112 words)

	Maria Brooks, by Rufus Griswold
		Brooks, upon whom this title was conferred originally, I believe, by the poet Southey, was descended form a Welsh family that settled in Charlestown, near Boston, sometime before the Revolution.
		A considerable portion of the liberal fortune of her grandfather was lost by the burning of that city in 1775, and he soon afterward removed to Medford, across the Mystic river, where Maria Gowen was born in 1795.
		Brooks enclosed these verses and observed: "I recall them after an interval of twenty years.
	www.orgs.muohio.edu /womenpoets/poetess/works/griswold1873a.html (1138 words)

	Zophiel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In Pardise Lost VI Zophiel reports to the heavenly hosts that the rebel crew are preparing a 2nd and fiercer attack.
		To Klopstock (The Messiah) Zophiel is the "herald of hell." He is the main character in the book-length poem Maria Del Occidente (Maria Gowen Brooks) who derived her inspiration from the story in the apocryphal Book of Tobit.
		Another character in the poem is hte angel Raphiel who also goes by the name Hariph.
	www.iit.edu /~herzdan/zophiel.htm (143 words)

	Brooks, Mel - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK
		Brooks, Mel, 1927-, American film director, writer, actor, and producer, b.
		Brooks turned to the stage in 2001, adapting his first film hit, The Producers, into a smash hit, Tony-winning Broadway musical.
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	www.thehistorychannel.co.uk /site/search/search.php?word=BrooksMl (339 words)

	Free Books > Tags > Brooks
		The Emancipation of Massachusetts by Brooks Adams
		The Jobsiad : a grotesco-comico-heroic poem by Brooks
		The Syriac Chronicle Known As That Of Zachariah Of Mitylene by Zacharius Of Mytiline, Trans.
	2020ok.com /tags/brooks.htm (999 words)

	Brooks, Maria Gowen - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
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		The women associated with Poe, like Sarah Helen Whitman, Frances Sargent Osgood, and Maria Gowen Brooks, also intrigued Varner, and he studied them as well.
		Found in this subseries is the correspondence, research material, and drafts that Varner generated when he was asked to write short biographies of important nineteenth-century women for this reference source, which was published in 1971.
		Varner contributed three biographies to this book, and his research of Maria Gowan Brooks, Frances Sargent Osgood, and Sarah Helen Whitman is documented here.
	www.lib.utexas.edu /taro/uthrc/00132.xml (1756 words)

	Dr. Debbie L. Lopez
		At the Jack London Society Fourth Biennial Symposium, (with Maria
		California, Co-presented with Maria DeGuzman, “The Sea-Wolf, Guilt, and
		“Maria Gowen Brooks.” Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook, editor Denise D. Knight (Greenwood Publishing Groups, Inc., 1997).
	colfa.utsa.edu /ecpc/faculty/dlopez/conferences.htm (423 words)

	Blackwell Publishing Book
		Ladies Monitor (1801): "Maria," By a Lady Whose Infant Lay Sleeping in the Cradle.
		North Star (1848): {Maria W. Chapman}, The Times that Try Men's Souls.
		National Anti-Slavery Standard (1856): Maria Weston Chapman, trans., Souvenir of the Night of the Fourth of December, 1851, from the French of Victor Hugo.
	www.blackwellpublishing.com /contents.asp?ref=0631203990 (2306 words)

	Maria Gowen Brooks — FactMonster.com
		(1820), was praised by Southey, who named her “Maria del Occidente,” which she later used as a pseudonym.
		While living in Cuba she wrote the epic
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	Zophiel by Maria Gowen Brooks - Free eBook
		Zophiel by Maria Gowen Brooks - Free eBook
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	Zophiel A Poem , by Maria Gowen Brooks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
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