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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 3., Maria del Occidente. (search)

baptismal name was not Maria, but Abigail. In 1819 the General Court allowed her to take the name of Mary Abigail Brooks, by which name she was baptized at King's Chapel, Boston, July 31, 1819. With the publication of Zophiel, in 1833, she assumed the nom de plume of Maria del Occidente, and signed her prefaces Maria Gowen Brooks. The romantic temperament indicated by her change of name and norm de plume finds corroboration in letters of contemporaries concerning her. Her niece, Mrs. Ellen Parker, of Boston, writes: In all my life I never passed more than a few months in the society of my aunt, Mrs. Brooks; but to my girlish vision she always appeared a being of the most romantic loveliness and grace. She always dressed in white or gray, wearing transparent sleeves, through which her beautiful arms were seen, and her hands were almost always covered with white kid gloves. She seemed to reverence her own personal charms, and felt it a duty to preserve her own sweetness. When

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