A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/James, Maria

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JAMES, MARIA,

Is the daughter of a Welsh emigrant, who went to America in the early part of this century, when his daughter was about seven years old, and settled in the northern part of the state of New York. Maria James received but a very slight education, but from her earliest youth evinced a poetical talent very remarkable in a person circumstanced as she was; occupying generally the position of nursery-maid, or servant in families in the towns of that state. Her poems, with a preface by Alonzo Potter, D.D., now Bishop of Pennsylvania, were published in 1839.