Poems, upon several sermons, preached by the Rev'd, and renowned, George Whitefield, while in Boston. [electronic resource] : [Three lines of quotation] A New Years gift, from a Daughter of Liberty and lover of truth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dunlap, Jane.

Contributor:

Russell, Ezekiel, 1743-1796, printer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women as authors.

Whitefield, George, 1714-1770--Poetry.

Whitefield, George.

Whitefield, George, 1714-1770--Portraits.

Local Subjects:

Women as authors.

Genre:

Poems -- 1771.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([2],iii,4-22p. ) ill. ;

Other Title:

Poems, upon several sermons, preached by the Rev'd, and renowned, George Whitefield, while in Boston

Place of Publication:

Boston : Printed and sold [by Ezekiel Russell?], next to the writing-school in Queen-Srreet [sic], 1771.

Notes:

Introduction signed: Jane Dunlap. Boston Jan. 1st. 1771. "To the reader," p. [20], signed: J.D. March 18. 1771.

The author is probably Jane (Harris) Dunlap, born in Milton, Mass., who married George Dunlap of Boston, Apr. 17, 1757. He died Jan. 7, 1771, and she married Deacon Jonathan Livermore of Northborough Nov. 16, 1775. "To the reader." places the death of the author's husband between Jan. 1 and Mar. 18, 1771.

Title page portrait of Whitefield (Reilly 1189) is the only illustration.

Reproduction of original from Library of Congress.

Cited in:

Evans, 12031

Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 127

English Short Title Catalog, W27717.

OCLC:

511153846