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4 days ago · She was 21 when she married 63-year old Benning Wentworth in 1760. Benning was the wealthy British governor of New Hampshire and she was his maid. The May-December marriage rocked Portsmouth. A century later, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow turned the story into a best-selling ballad called "Lady Wentworth".
3 days ago · Despite Sumner’s seemingly social awkwardness and “inabililty or unwillingness to relax and engage in pleasant conversation or good-natured banter,” he had a handful of steadfast friends, including Henry Wadsworth and Frances Longfellow, whom he could truly count on. (26)
1 day ago · Edgar Allan Poe ( né Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, author, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism and Gothic fiction in the United States, and of ...
4 days ago · Longfellow’s Life Like Gov. Benning We4ntowrth, Maine poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) was also in his 60s when the Wentworth story caught his imagination. An account of the Wentworth-Hilton marriage had appeared in Brewster's "Rambles About Portsmouth" in 1869.
5 days ago · 754 likes. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow — ‘If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm...
1 day ago · The azaleas are in full bloom in West Cambridge, a neighborhood of aristocratic, old homes, including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s. The famous Mount Auburn Cemetery is here, too, the final resting place of “the great and the good,” including Harvard presidents, Emilie’s grandfather Jerome Boles, and her great-grandfather John Boles.
4 days ago · Wadsworth, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's uncle and namesake, was killed along with 12 fellow sailors when the USS Intrepid, the ship on which they were serving, exploded in Tripoli in 1804 during the First Barbary War.
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