Maria White Lowell

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Maria White Lowell (1821 – October 27, 1853) was an American poet and abolitionist.

Two years after her death, James Russell Lowell, the poet's husband, privately published her poems.

Early life

Maria White was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, to a middle-class, intellectual family. She was raised at an Ursuline convent, which had been burned by a crowd in 1834, under strict ascetic rule.

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Career

Lowell became involved in the temperance movement and was a champion of women's rights. She was one of the first "conversation" initiated by women's rights activist Margaret Fuller on November 6, 1839.

Maria White's brother William introduced her to Harvard College classmate James Russell Lowell the same year. In the fall of 1840, the two were engaged. Nevertheless, her father, Abijah White, a wealthy merchant, requested that the wedding be postponed until Lowell had gainful employment.

Maria White and her mother left Boston's bleak neighborhood for the spring in Philadelphia's cooler climate in the winter of 1843-44. They went to a Friend's boarding house in the city, and, thanks to their hostess, "Friend Parker," who introduced the Whites to other Friend homes. The Whites had no idea of Quakerism, but their simple sincere natures shared a lot with people of that faith, who in turn loved learning about the Whites. Strong friendships followed, and Maria White's tendency toward the antislavery movement, which was later reinforced and expanded, was a natural result of this. The mother and daughter returned to Watertown as the weather war warmer and the east winds of New England had lessened. Maria White was advised to sit longer in Philadelphia and visit some of her new friends in their own homes, but she replied with a straight no. "I have found one in Cambridge who makes even the east wind warm for me." She was referring to James Russell Lowell, her fiancé.

The couple married on December 26, 1844 at her father's house, just short of Lowell's book Conversations on the Old Poets, a collection of his previously published essays. The new wife believed she was "half of the earth and more than of Heaven." Their union was described as "the exact picture of a True Marriage" by a friend.

White, a Boston teen who became involved in resistance against intemperance and slavery, became a member of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, persuaded Lowell to become an abolitionist. The new Mrs. Lowell, on the other hand, was in poor health, and the couple moved to Philadelphia right after their marriage in the hopes that she would be admitted there.

In 1845, the newly married pair returned to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to do some editorial work on the Pennsylvania's Freeman, an antislavery weekly in the city, and also to the Antislavery Standard. The Lowells had their daguerrotypes taken by Langenheim before leaving Philadelphia. These were the only photographs taken in their early marriage life. The Lowells returned to Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the spring of 1845, to make their home at Elmwood in Cambridge, Massachusetts. They had four children but only one of them survived past infancy. Blanche was born in 1845 but died in 1852; Rose, who was born in 1849, survived only for a few months; but they did not die in 1852; Blanche was born in 1851. Mabel, only their fourth child, lived to adulthood.

Maria White Lowell died on October 27, 1853 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at a time when she was fragile and plagued by ill-health throughout her life. In Mount Auburn Cemetery, she and her husband are buried. After her death (Cambridge, 1855), a collection of her poems was published privately. "The Alpine Shepherd" and "The Morning-Glory" are two of them that are most popular.

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