Grace Seixas Nathan
portrait by Henry Inman
Born11 November 1752 Edit this on Wikidata
Stratford Edit this on Wikidata
Died8 November 1831 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 78)
New York Edit this on Wikidata
OccupationWriter Edit this on Wikidata
Spouse(s)Simon Nathan Edit this on Wikidata
ChildrenSeixas Isaac Mendes Nathan Edit this on Wikidata
FamilyGershom Mendes Seixas, Moses Seixas Edit this on Wikidata

Grace Seixas Nathan (1752–1831) was a Jewish-American poet and a member of a prominent Sephardic family.[1]

Biography

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.[2] In 1947, some of her correspondence was published by the American Jewish Historical Society.[3]

She was the great-grandmother of poet Emma Lazarus.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Kaufman, A. L. (1998). Cardozo (Vol. 16). Harvard University Press.
  2. ↑ Snyder, Holly. "Grace Seixas Nathan." Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women. December 31, 1999. Jewish Women's Archive. (Viewed on February 2, 2023).
  3. ↑ de Sola Pool, D. (1947). Some Letters of Grace Seixas Nathan, 1814–1821. Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society, (37), 203–211.
  4. ↑ Schor, Esther H. (2017). Emma Lazarus. Internet Archive. New York : Schocken. pp. 3–4. ISBN 978-0-8052-4275-1.
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