Mary E. Hewitt

[1] She published: Memorial of F. S. Osgood; Songs of Our Lord; Heroines of History; and Poems Sacred, Passionate, and Legendary.

[6] Hewitt's earlier poems appeared in The Knickerbocker, Southern Literary Messenger ("A Bivouac in the Desert", July 1844),[5] and other periodicals, under the signature of "Ione" and "Jane".

[7] This volume confirmed the high opinions which had been formed of her abilities from the fugitive pieces that had been popularly attributed to her.

Her compositions in this collection demonstrated that she has a fine and well-cultivated understanding, and they are distinguished in an unusual degree for lyrical power and harmony as well as for sweetness of versification.

[8] Hewitt's poem "Harold the Valiant" appeared closely upon the date of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Skeleton in Armor" (1841), with which it had points of resemblance.