By Broad Potomac's Shore by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: POE001000 Poetry / Anthologies (multiple Authors)
Publisher: University of Virginia Press

Mary Abigail Dodge (Gail Hamilton)

March 31, 1833–August 17, 1896

Mary Abigail Dodge, who wrote under the pen name Gail Hamilton, was born in Massachusetts and came to DC in 1856 to be governess to the children of Gamaliel and Margaret Bailey. Hamilton wrote poetry, essays, and journalism, published in Bailey’s New Era and other progressive publications, and her work was notable for its wit and strong feminist and antislavery stances.

Hamilton coedited Our Young Folks with Lucy Larcom, managed Wood’s Household Magazine, and wrote a biography of Senator James G. Blaine, whose wife was her cousin (1895). Her other nonfiction books include Woman’s Wrongs, a Counter Irritant (1868), Woman’s Worth and Worthlessness (1872), and A Battle of the Books (1870). In addition, she published a novel, First Love Is Best (1873); a travel book, Wool Gathering (1867); and a book of poems, Chips, Fragments, and Vestiges (published posthumously, 1902).

An obituary in the Washington Morning Times in 1896 states, “She had vigorous convictions which she expressed in graceful, witty and forceful language.”

This first poem was written in response to a poem by her friend John Greenleaf Whittier, accusing Hamilton of possessing “measureless ridicule” as “she wields a pen / Too sharply nibbed for thin-skinned men.”

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