Visit to Worchester Art Museum today included a view of a portrait of Sarah Morton by Gilbert Stuart.
Sarah lived on Dudley Street in Dorchester in the Morton mansion designed by her cousin Charles Bulfinch.
Sarah’s publications include poems contributed to literary magazines. Her first long poem was published separately in book form in December, 1790, Ouabi: or The Virtues of Nature, An Indian Tale. In Four Cantos. Boston: Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer Andrews, 1790. Other works include: Beacon Hill. A Local Poem, 1797; The Virtues of Society. A Tale Founded on Fact, 1799; My Mind and Its Thoughts, in Sketches, Fragments, and Essays, 1823.
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