A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Winter, Lucretia Wilhelmina

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WINTER, LUCRETIA WILHELMINA,

(Her maiden name was Van Merken,) was born in 1745, in Amsterdam, Holland. She was married to the poet Nicolaus Simon Winter, with whose writings a great deal of her poetry was published. She was a poetess of the Dutch school; all her verses bear the impress of labour, and the marks of a great deal of polishing. She wrote the two epics, "David," and "Gerraanicus," and a number of miscellaneous poems, published in 1793. She died in 1795, at Leyden, Holland.