| 词条 | Elizabeth Louisa Foster Mather |
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| name = Elizabeth Louisa Foster Mather | embed = | honorific_prefix = | honorific_suffix = | image = Elizabeth Louisa Foster Mather.png | image_size = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | pseudonym = E. Louisa Mather | birth_name = Elizabeth Louisa Foster | birth_date = January 7, 1815 | birth_place = East Haddam, Connecticut, U.S. | death_date = {{dda|1882|2|5|1815|1|7}} | death_place = | resting_place = Hungerford Cemetery, East Haddam | occupation = writer | language = English | nationality = American | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = | period = | genre = | subject = | movement = | notableworks = | spouse = {{marriage|Eleazer Watrous Mather|1837}} | relations = | children = | years_active = | module = | website = | portaldisp = | signature = }} Elizabeth Louisa Foster Mather (writing as, E. Louisa Mather; January 7, 1815 – February 5, 1882) was a 19th-century American writer. Early yearsElizabeth Louisa Foster was born in East Haddam, Connecticut, January 7, 1815. On her maternal side, she was a relative of Mrs. Abel C. Thomas. Mather was baptized in the Episcopal Church, of which her parents were members. Her grandfather was Joel Foster, A. M. Her father came from Massachusetts, and settled in Connecticut in 1809 or 1810. The family traces its descent from Miles Standish, of Plymouth Colony, on the father's side.{{sfn|Hanson|1884|pp=111–}} CareerJune 18, 1837, she married Eleazer Watrous Mather (1812–1887),{{sfn|Ransom|1903|p=122}} of East Haddam. He was a farmer.{{sfn|Pierce|1899|p=322}} In the early days of her marriage, her husband took the "Universalist Union", and the writings of Mrs. Julia H. Scott arrested her attention. Mather became a convert to Universalism soon after her husband did so.{{sfn|Hanson|1884|pp=111–}}[1] Mather wrote essays, stories and poems for "Ladies' Repository" from 1847 to 1874, as well as for the "Universalist Union", "Trumpet," "Ambassador," "Golden Hide," and "Odd Fellows' Offering". Mary Livermore invited Mather to write for the "Lily of the Valley".{{sfn|Hanson|1884|pp=111–}} She wrote for 40 years,{{sfn|Beckwith|1880|p=48}} on religious subjects, capital punishment, and woman's suffrage.{{sfn|Pierce|1899|p=322}} Personal lifeThere were at least three children from the marriage, Kate Louise Mather Warner, Nathan Augustus Mather, and Fannie Foster Mather Dickinson. Mather endured two weeks of severe suffering{{sfn|Beckwith|1880|p=48}} before she died February 5, 1882,{{sfn|Ransom|1903|p=122}}{{sfn|Pierce|1899|p=322}} and was buried at the Hungerford Cemetery in East Haddam.{{cn|date=January 2019}} From Hadlyme hills, poems and prose by E. Louisa Mather (1956) is a compilation by her granddaughter, M. Catherine Dickinson Writer and her great-granddaughter, Priscilla Wright Pratt.{{sfn|Library of Congress|1957|p=1216}} References1. ^{{cite web|title=Notable Women M|url=http://uuhhs.org/womens-history/notable-women-biographies/notable-women-m/|website=UUHHS|accessdate=18 September 2017}} Attribution
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7 : 1815 births|1882 deaths|19th-century American writers|19th-century American women writers|Members of the Universalist Church of America|People from East Haddam, Connecticut|Writers from Connecticut |
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