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Anne Gilchrist (writer)

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She was born in 1828 to John Parker and Henrietta Burrows. Her father died after a horse riding accident when she was eleven and she was brought up in London.
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She was left with their four children: Percy, Beatrice, Herbert, and Grace. One of the reasons for the family's move to
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in 1878, but returned to England the following year. In 1883, she published a biography of the writer
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in 1876 was Beatrice's desire to attend medical school. Beatrice eventually became a physician in
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She is perhaps best known for developing a deep attachment to Walt Whitman when she read
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in 1861. Her daughter Beatrice had originally caught the disease and then her son,
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in 1869, and for writing the first great criticism of that work,
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in 1851 after a two year engagement. Five years later, in
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After her husband's death in 1861, Anne completed his
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Walt Whitman's Mrs. G: A Biography of Anne Gilchrist
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Walt Whitman
Essex
Alexander Gilchrist
Chelsea
Thomas Carlyle
Jane Welsh Carlyle
scarlet fever
Percy
Philadelphia
Edinburgh
Life of Blake
Leaves of Grass
William Michael Rossetti
New England
Mary Lamb



"Penn Special Collections-Gilchrist Biography"
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Wood, James
"Gilchrist, Alexander" 
The Nuttall Encyclopædia
Worshipping Walt: The Whitman Disciples
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