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Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Maria Gowen Brooks
Born: 1794
Died: November 11, 1845 (aged 51)
Bio: Maria Gowen Brooks was an American poet. She impressed Edgar Allan Poe and the English Poet Laureate, Robert Southey, who promoted her best-known poem Zophiël.
Known for:
- Zóphiël; or, The bride of seven (1833)
- Zophiel: A Poem, (1825)