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A Short Biography of James Russell Lowell

Author Name:

James Russell Lowell

Born As:

James Russell Lowell

Other Names:

Born:

22 Feb 1819

Died:

12 Aug 1891




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Poet, diplomat, US minister to Spain                          
Selected Works:

Poetry collections:

A Year's Life - 1841
Miscellaneous Poems - 1843
The Biglow Papers - 1848
A Fable for Critics - 1848
Poems - 1848
The Vision of Sir Launfal - 1848
Under the Willows - 1869
The Cathedral - 1870
Heartsease and Rue - 1888

Essay collections:

Conversations on the Old Poets - 1844
Fireside Travels - 1864
Among My Books - 1870
My Study Windows - 1871
Among My Books - second collection, 1876
Democracy and Other Addresses - 1886
Political Essays - 1888.                          
Mother Harriett Brackett Spence Lowell
Father  Charles Russell Lowell, Sr., James was the youngest of six children.
Wife Maria White, had several children, only one survived.

Maria died in 1853 from tuberculosis, and James married again in 1857 to Frances Dunlap.                          
                          
Maria was a member of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society and convinced Lowell to become an abolitionist. James Lowell had expressed anti-slavery sentiments but Maria urged him towards active expression and involvement. His second volume of poems, Miscellaneous Poems, expressed these anti-slavery thoughts and sold well.