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1835 AD (search for this): chapter 18
College. In the meantime she went with her brother Hammond, of Quebec, to Europe, 1830, where she visited Southey, and by his advice got out a London edition of Zophiel. She was introduced to Lafayette, who was so pleased with her that he asked if he could be of any service to her. Yes, said she, you can get my son into West Point. Upon this Lafayette wrote to Bernard, our then chief engineer, and the appointment of a cadet came to me. Horace entered West Point in 1831, and graduated in 1835. Mrs. Brooks lived with him at West Point, when he was Lieutenant Brooks, from 1836 to 1839. In 1840 she was with him at Fort Hamilton, N. Y. She sailed for Cuba, the last time, in December, 1843. She died at Matanzas, Cuba, Nov. 11, 1845, and was buried at Limonal, Horace says, by the side of my two brothers. It is probable that one of these was a half-brother, son of her sister, Lucretia. Mrs. Brooks' son Edgar became a planter in Cuba, and died during the life of his mother.
November 21st, 1898 AD (search for this): chapter 18
Maria del Occidente. [A paper read before the Medford Historical Society, Nov. 21, 1898, by Miss Caroline E. Swift.] BUT little is known of the early life of Maria del Occidente. She was a daughter of William and Eleanor (Cutter) Gowen, Her father, William Gowen, was a son of Hammond and Mary (Crosswell) Gowen, of Charlestown, and a grandson of Capt. Joseph and Elizabeth (Ford) Gowen, of Charlestown. Her mother, Eleanor (Cutter) Gowen, was a lineal descendant of Richard Cutter, who with his mother, widow Elizabeth Cutter, was one of the early settlers of Cambridge. and was born in Medford in 1794. Her father was a man of cultivated tastes; he had many literary and professional friends, and held various public offices in Medford. He was a goldsmith by profession, and seems to have been in reduced circumstances the last years of his life. The family moved to Boston while Maria was an infant. Her father died when she was fourteen, and at the age of sixteen she became
1840 AD (search for this): chapter 18
d Southey, and by his advice got out a London edition of Zophiel. She was introduced to Lafayette, who was so pleased with her that he asked if he could be of any service to her. Yes, said she, you can get my son into West Point. Upon this Lafayette wrote to Bernard, our then chief engineer, and the appointment of a cadet came to me. Horace entered West Point in 1831, and graduated in 1835. Mrs. Brooks lived with him at West Point, when he was Lieutenant Brooks, from 1836 to 1839. In 1840 she was with him at Fort Hamilton, N. Y. She sailed for Cuba, the last time, in December, 1843. She died at Matanzas, Cuba, Nov. 11, 1845, and was buried at Limonal, Horace says, by the side of my two brothers. It is probable that one of these was a half-brother, son of her sister, Lucretia. Mrs. Brooks' son Edgar became a planter in Cuba, and died during the life of his mother. (See her Ode.) Horace, after going through the Mexican War, the Kansas War, and the Rebellion, retire
1839 AD (search for this): chapter 18
she visited Southey, and by his advice got out a London edition of Zophiel. She was introduced to Lafayette, who was so pleased with her that he asked if he could be of any service to her. Yes, said she, you can get my son into West Point. Upon this Lafayette wrote to Bernard, our then chief engineer, and the appointment of a cadet came to me. Horace entered West Point in 1831, and graduated in 1835. Mrs. Brooks lived with him at West Point, when he was Lieutenant Brooks, from 1836 to 1839. In 1840 she was with him at Fort Hamilton, N. Y. She sailed for Cuba, the last time, in December, 1843. She died at Matanzas, Cuba, Nov. 11, 1845, and was buried at Limonal, Horace says, by the side of my two brothers. It is probable that one of these was a half-brother, son of her sister, Lucretia. Mrs. Brooks' son Edgar became a planter in Cuba, and died during the life of his mother. (See her Ode.) Horace, after going through the Mexican War, the Kansas War, and the Rebelli
1794 AD (search for this): chapter 18
ift.] BUT little is known of the early life of Maria del Occidente. She was a daughter of William and Eleanor (Cutter) Gowen, Her father, William Gowen, was a son of Hammond and Mary (Crosswell) Gowen, of Charlestown, and a grandson of Capt. Joseph and Elizabeth (Ford) Gowen, of Charlestown. Her mother, Eleanor (Cutter) Gowen, was a lineal descendant of Richard Cutter, who with his mother, widow Elizabeth Cutter, was one of the early settlers of Cambridge. and was born in Medford in 1794. Her father was a man of cultivated tastes; he had many literary and professional friends, and held various public offices in Medford. He was a goldsmith by profession, and seems to have been in reduced circumstances the last years of his life. The family moved to Boston while Maria was an infant. Her father died when she was fourteen, and at the age of sixteen she became the second wife of John Brooks, a merchant tailor of Boston, who had previously married Lucretia Gowen, an older siste
1796 AD (search for this): chapter 18
uthern Literary Messenger; Griswold's Female Poets of America; Duyckinck's Cyclopedia of American Literature; Medford town records; Boston Town Records; Medford church records; King's Chapel records; records of the Suffolk County Court; the Middlesex Probate and Registry of Deeds, East Cambridge; the Suffolk Probate and Registry of Deeds, Boston; Essex County Probate and Registry of Deeds, Salem; Charlestown records; Wyman's Estates and Genealogies of Charlestown; Boston Town Directories from 1796 to 1823; the Cutter Genealogy; List of Graduates of West Point; and McCullum's Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the United States Military Academy. Judith, Esther, and other Poems. / By a Lover of the Fine Arts, / Boston: Cummings & Hilliard. / 1820. Zophiel. / A Poem. By Mrs. Brooks. / Boston. / Published by Richardson & Lord. / 1825. Zophiel; / or, / The Bride of Seven. / By / Maria del Occidente. / Boston, / Carter & Hendee, / 1833. This edition was publi
July 31st, 1819 AD (search for this): chapter 18
ces in the Mexican War. He died in 1894. Mrs. Brooks' first publication was made during the life of her husband, in 1820. In 1825 the first canto of Zophiel was published. In 1826-7-8 and 9 she worked at intervals on Zophiel. The whole poem was published in 1833-4. In 1843 Idomen appeared. Mrs. Brooks' 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
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