by
Georgina King Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
In this biography of the poet John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)—author of the famous poem “Barbara Frietchie,” influential Quaker poet, and advocate of the abolition of slavery—author Georgina King Lewis examines Whittier’s childhood, poetic genius, nobility of character, courage, and self-sacrifice.