Katharine Augusta Ware (1797–1843) was a 19th-century American poet and the editor of the Boston-based literary periodical, Bower of Taste.
[1][2][3][4] Katharine (sometimes misspelled "Katherine")[3] Augusta Ware was born in 1797 at Quincy, Massachusetts,[2] where her father was a physician.
[2] in the ensuing years, she gained recognition as an accomplished writer of odes for public events and contributed to literary journals.
[1][4] In 1828, Ware commenced in Boston the publication of a literary periodical, entitled The Bower of Taste,[3] which was continued several years.
[1][2][4] A few months before she died, Ware published, in London, a selection from her writings, under the title of The Power of the Passions and other Poems.