| LC control no. | n 50016726 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS866.W5 |
| Personal name heading | Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784 |
| Variant(s) | Peters, Phillis Wheatley, 1753-1784 Peters, Phillis, 1753-1784 Wheatley, Phyllis, 1753-1784 |
| Birth date | 1753-05-08 |
| Death date | 1784-12-05 |
| Place of birth | Africa, West |
| Place of death | Boston (Mass.) |
| Profession or occupation | Poets |
| Found in | The poems of Phillis Wheatley, 1989 Phyllis Wheatley, c1992. Heaven the residence of the saints, 1771: title page (an elegiac poem ... by Phillis, a Negro girl of seventeen years of age, belonging to Mr. J. Wheatley of Boston) Wikipedia, viewed Sept. 6, 2012 (Phillis Wheatley (May 8, 1753--Dec. 5, 1784) was the first African-American poet and first African-American woman to publish a book) Britannica online, March 27, 2015 (Phillis Wheatley; born circa 1753, in West Africa (present-day Senegal or Gambia); died December 5, 1784, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.; the first black woman poet of note in the United States) <http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/641615/Phillis-Wheatley> |
| Associated language | eng |
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