Walt Whitman's Mrs. G

A Biography of Anne Gilchrist

• Author(s): Marion Walker Alcaro,
• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
• Pages: 281
• ISBN_10: 0838633811
  ISBN_13: 9780838633816
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / General , Literary Collections / Essays , Literary Criticism / Women Authors , Poetry / General ,

Description:... This book is the biography of Anne Burrows Gilchrist, an Englishwoman of letters and widow of Blake's biographer, who fell in love with Wait Whitman when she read Leaves of Grass. In 1876 she came to America hoping to marry Whitman, but instead became his beloved friend. Illustrated.