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An American poet; born in Mt. Washington, Mass., Oct. 9, 1863. She became a teacher in the Hampton Institute in Virginia, and wrote editorially for the Southern Workman (1883). In 1885 she visited the Great Sioux reservation, reporting her views to New York and Boston journals. She taught school at White River Camp. Lower Brule Agency, Dakota. Her "Journal of a Farmer's Daughter" was published in 1881. Together with her sister Dora Read, she produced: "Apple Blossoms: Verses of Two Children" (1878); "In Berkshire with the Wild Flowers" (1879); and "Verses from Sky Farm" (1880).