| Mary Ann H. Dodd | |
| Birth Name: | Mary Ann Hanmer Dodd |
| Birth Date: | March 5, 1813 |
| Birth Place: | Hartford, Connecticut, US |
| Death Date: | January 18, 1878 (aged 64) |
| Death Place: | near Albany, New York |
| Occupation: | poet |
| Alma Mater: | Mrs. Kinnear's Seminary |
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Mary Ann H. Dodd (after marriage Shutts; March 5, 1813January 18, 1878) was a 19th-century American poet.
Mary Ann Hanmer Dodd was born at Hartford, Connecticut, March 5, 1813, and always resided in that city. She was the daughter of Elisha Dodd.[1] She was at school at Wethersfield, and in her native town, where she completed her studies in 1830, at Mrs. Kinnear's Seminary.[2] [3]
Her first published articles appeared in 1834, in the Hermethenean, a magazine conducted by the students of Washington College (now Trinity College), in Hartford. She wrote but little until 1835, since which time she was a frequent contributor to The Ladies' Repository, a magazine published in Boston, and the Rose of Sharon, an annual, in which the greater part of her writings appeared. A volume of her poems, published at Hartford in 1843, was marked by a gentle melancholy and a deep religious feeling.[4]
She married Henry Shutts, of New York state, at Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1855. She was a Universalist, and published many of her pieces in denominational prints.
She died on January 18, 1878, near Albany, New York.[5]
Caroline May (1848) noted that Dodd "possesses a poetical sensibility, and the power of deducing moral lessons from the changes of life".[6]
Samuel Austin Allibone (1863) characterized "The Lament", "the Mourner", "To a Cricket", "The Dreamer", and "The Dove's Visit", as compositions of rare excellence.[7]
According to Wilson & Fiske (1887), "Her writings would have been known more generally, and perhaps more favorably, if she had not confined herself so much to denominational channels of publication."