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Juliet H. Lewis Campbell

1823 – 1898

American poet, novelist

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Lived 1823 – 1898 (aged 75). Juliet H. Lewis Campbell was an American novelist, poet and writer.

Juliet Hamersley Lewis Campbell (August 5, 1823 – December 26, 1898) was an American poet and novelist.

Biography She was born as Juliet Hamersley Lewis in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, the eldest child of Judge Ellis Lewis (1798–1871), later Pennsylvania Attorney General and Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. She attended the Moravian Young Ladies' Seminary in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, beginning in 1835. In 1842 she married lawyer and future United States Representative James Hepburn Campbell.

Campbell was a poet and her poems were included in several prominent anthologies. The American Female Poets (1848) by Caroline May included "Dreams", "A Confession", "Lines at Night", and "Tarpeia", The Female Poets of America (1849) by Rufus Wilmot Griswold included "Dreams", "Night-Blooming Flowers", and "A Story of Sunrise", and Read's Female Poets of America (1848) by Thomas Buchanan Read included "A Story of Sunrise" and "A Song of Sunset".

In 1862, she published the long poem Legend of Infancy of Our Savior: A Christmas Carol.

Campbell's only novel was Eros and Antieros; or, The Bachelor's Ward, published in 1857 under the name Judith Canute and published again the following year as The Old Love and the New under her own name.

Portraits of Campbell by Thomas Sully and John Henry Brown are owned by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

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Who was Juliet H. Lewis Campbell?

American poet, novelist (1823-1898)

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Juliet H. Lewis Campbell was born on 5 August 1823.

When did Juliet H. Lewis Campbell die?

Juliet H. Lewis Campbell died on 26 December 1898.

What was Juliet H. Lewis Campbell's occupation?

Juliet H. Lewis Campbell was a novelist, poet and writer.

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Juliet H. Lewis Campbell was American.

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· Wikipedia: Juliet H. Lewis Campbell

· Wikidata: Q6308872

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