Sarah Hammond Palfrey (December 11, 1823 – 1914) was an American novelist and poet who used the
pseudonym
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. E. Foxton. She was born in Boston to John Gorham Foxton, a Unitarian minister,
and Mary Ann née Hammond Palfrey. She lived in
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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.
Some of her letters survive.
Writings
*''Harvest-home''
*''Old times and new''
Novels
*''Herman, or Young Knighthood'' Volume I and II, Lee and Shepard, Boston 1865
*''Agnes Wentworth''
*''Katherine Morne''
Poetry
*''Prémices''
*''Sir Pavon and St. Pavon''
*''King Arthur in Avalon''
*''The Chapel the Chapel; And Other Poems, Christo Et Ecclesia'' (1880)
References
1823 births
1914 deaths
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