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In the fall of 1770, poet Phillis Wheatley wrote a poem about a preacher Reverend George Whitefield which was advertised for sale in a the "Massachusetts Spy." Susanna, owner of Phillis Wheatley encouraged her to send a copy of the poem to Susanna's friend the Countess of Huntingdon in Great Britain. She continued composing one elegy after another. By the fall of 1772, her fame as a poet had spread beyond the colonies. But Susanna wanted even more notice of Phillis Wheatley's writing. In the month of December 1772, the countess vowed that Philis Wheatley's poems would be printed as a book. |