Awarded National Women's Hall of Fame (2009).
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Emma Lazarus
Emma Lazarus was an American author of poetry, prose, and translations, as well as an activist for Jewish and Georgist causes. Lazarus is especially remembered for her 1883 sonnet, "The New Colossus", which was inspired by the Statue of Liberty. Lines from the sonnet are inscribed on a bronze plaque which was installed on the Statue's pedestal in 1903. Lazarus was involved in aiding refugees to Ne…
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culture · American poet (1849–1887) · poet · writer · journalist · translator · also Emma Lazarus, Lazarus
Born 22 July 1849 · Died 19 November 1887 · Q240959
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2009· 2 entries
Was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame
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1992· 1 entry
Was named as a Women's History Month Honoree by the National Women's History Project
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1887· 1 entry
Died 1887-11-19.
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1883· 2 entries
And donated to an auction, conducted by the "Art Loan Fund Exhibition in Aid of the Bartholdi Pedestal Fund for the Statue of Liberty" in order to raise funds to build the pedestal
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Founded the Society for the Improvement and Colonization of East European Jews
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1874· 2 entries
(Philadelphia), and was followed by The Spagnoletto (1876), a tragedy
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“I cannot resist the impulse of expressing to you my extreme disappointment at finding you have so far modified the enthusiastic estimate you held of my literary labors as to refuse me a place in the large & miscellaneous collection of poems you have just edited,”
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1867· 1 entry
(New York), and was commended by William Cullen Bryant
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1849· 1 entry
Born 1849-07-22.
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