Her father had been a soldier in the American Revolutionary War, and after her mother's death, she became his constant companion, which accounts for the patriotism of her earlier verses.

[neutrality is disputed] Nearly all of them appeared originally in annuals, magazines, and other miscellanies, and their popularity was shown by the subsequent sale of several collective editions.

In her youth, he re-moved to Newburyport, near Boston, and for many years before his death, she was his housekeeper, his constant companion, and the chief source of his happiness.

[2] She was widely known in her day as the author of numberless poems and prose sketches, and hundreds of school children were reciting her lines.

[7] The poem "Jack Frost" put his merry pranks to the front and prepared the way for science to give him a true analysis.

[5] According to the American Unitarian Association (1912):— "Her independence of thought sometimes led to her being classified as 'strong-minded', a term that in those days was not infrequently applied to women of originality; but, as she was a literary woman, Newburyport easily forgave the fact of her ability to think for herself.

It is so sweet and unpretending, so pure in purpose and so gentle in expression that criticism is disarmed of all severity and engaged to say nothing of it but good.

She needed apparently but the provocation of a wider social inspiration to become very clever and apt in jeux d'esprit and epigrams, as a few specimens which found their way into the journals amply indicated.

[11] Often by a dainty touch, or lively prelude, gentle raillery revealed itself, and in this respect, Gould manifested a decided individuality.