Faugeres, Margaretta V. (1771–1801)
Faugeres, Margaretta V. (1771–1801)
American author. Name variations: Margaretta Van Wyck Bleecker; Peggy Faugeres. Born Oct 11, 1771, in Tomahanick, NY; died Jan 14, 1801, age 29; dau. of Ann Eliza Bleecker (poet and writer, 1752–1783) and John Bleecker; m. Peter Faugeres, July 14, 1792; children: Margaretta Mason.
Taught school in Brunswick and later in Brooklyn; contributed poems to the New York Magazine (1790–93); published a book of her mother's writings, The Posthumous Works of Ann Eliza Bleecker, in Prose and Verse, to which she added some of her own writings (1793); also wrote Essays in Prose and Verse (1795) and Belisarius: A Tragedy (1795).
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