About Elizabeth Washington Gamble Wirt
Lived 1784 – 1857 (aged 72). Elizabeth Washington Gamble Wirt was a writer and botanist.
Portrait of Elizabeth Wirt, painted ca. 1809–10 by Cephas Thompson. Collection of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.
Elizabeth Washington Wirt (; January 30, 1784 – January 24, 1857), who published under the name E. W. Wirt, was a 19th-century American author whose Flora's Dictionary was the first book to broadly popularize the concept of a language of flowers for American readers.
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Who was Elizabeth Washington Gamble Wirt?
American writer and botanist
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Elizabeth Washington Gamble Wirt was born on 30 January 1784.
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Elizabeth Washington Gamble Wirt died on 24 January 1857.
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Elizabeth Washington Gamble Wirt was a writer and botanist.
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