“The fire no longer burns as of yore on the altar, the passion has died out, and embers have to be blowed up with the bellows.”
About Elizabeth Stoddard
6 May 1823–1 August 1902
On a spring day in 1823, in the small coastal village of Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, a child was born who would grow to become one of the most original and underappreciated voices in nineteenth-century American literature. Elizabeth Drew Barstow entered the world on May 6, in a town where the rhythms of the sea…