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Elizabeth Gertrude Barber Barrett was born November 30, 1827 in New Haven, Conn. She traveled widely with her father and also with her husband Charles H. Barrett, who was master of a merchant ship. She wrote poems about her travels. She died of cholera in 1863.

Dianne Shapiro, from Memoir by S. Dryden Phelps in "The Poems of Elizabeth B. Barber Barrett" (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1866)