A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Faugeres, Margaretta V.
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FAUGERES, MARGARETTA V.,
An American lady, born in 1777, the daughter of Anne Elizabeth Bleeker, was distinguished for her literary accomplishments. Her youth was spent in the country; but she afterwards married, and lived in New York. Many of her poetical pieces were published in the periodicals of the day, and much admired. She also wrote the tragedy of "Belisarius" and some other works. By the profligacy of her husband, Peter Faugeres, a physician, she was reduced to extreme poverty; and after his death was obliged to resort to teaching for support. Her fine talents were wasted in her struggles with misfortune, and she never accomplished what her genius promised. She died in 1801.