Grace Seixas Nathan
Poet, 1752 – 1831
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| Intro | Poet, 1752 – 1831 | ||||||||
| was | Writer | ||||||||
| Work field | Literature | ||||||||
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| Birth | 11 November 1752, Stratford, Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Connecticut, USA | ||||||||
| Death | 8 November 1831New York, USA (aged 79 years) | ||||||||
| Star sign | Scorpio | ||||||||
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Grace Seixas Nathan (1752–1831) was a Jewish-American poet and a member of a prominent Sephradic family.
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Grace Seixas was born on November 11, 1752, in Stratford, Connecticut. In 1780, she married Simon Nathan, a merchant and a supporter of the American revolution. The couple had one son, Isaac Mendes (born 1785–1852). Seixas Nathan died in New York on November 8, 1831. Her poetry was never published in her lifetime. In 1947, some of her correspondence was published by the American Jewish Historical Society.
She was the great-grandmother of poet Emma Lazarus.