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<em>A Woman of the Century Women</em>
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<em>Women in Willard and Livermore's A Woman of the Century</em>
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McMaster, MaryKate
Contributor
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Cerqueira, Danielle
Chaisson, Jackie
Cook, Brittany N.
Diallo, Binta
Del Vecchio, Lauren
Ellis, Mallory
Hoops, Katharine
McMaster, MaryKate
Miller, Robbin
Morrissey, Carla B.
Morrissey, Margaret
Mushinsky, Jackie
Osher, Alana
Parton, Katy
Ravitz, Amy
Skoog, Susan
Tirone, Trish
Vezeau, Keith
Williamson, Emily
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McMaster, MaryKate
Person
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Page(s) in WOC
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<a href="https://archive.org/stream/bub_gb_zXEEAAAAYAAJ#page/n760/mode/1up/search/Virginia" target="_blank">756-757</a>
Name in WOC
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WEISS, Mrs. Susan Archer
Birth Name
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Talley, Susan Archer
Gender
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Female
Birth Year
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1822
Marital Status
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Divorced
Parent
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Yes
Occupation(s) in WOC
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poet, author and artist
Occupational Categories
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Art/Design
Writing/Publishing
Personal Network
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Galt, Alexander, 1827-1863
Mackenzie, Jane
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849
Poe, Rosalie
Valentine, Edward Virginius, 1838-1930
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April 7, 1917
URL
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/31929632" target="_blank">Susan Archer Talley Weiss Find A Grave - includes photo</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://www.eapoe.org/people/talleysa.htm" target="_blank">Susan Archer Talley - Edgar Allen Poe Society site</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://www.pinterest.com/jaysprout/wit-and-wisdom-of-susan-archer-weiss/" target="_blank">Wit and Wisdom of Susan Archer Weiss - Pinterest site</a></li>
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Bibliography
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<li>Ancestry.com. <i>Virginia, Death Records, 1912-2014</i> [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Original data: Virginia, Deaths, 1912–2014. Virginia Department of Health, Richmond, Virginia.</li>
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<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/31929632" target="_blank">Susan Archer Talley Weiss Find A Grave - includes photo</a></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.eapoe.org/people/talleysa.htm" target="_blank">Susan Archer Talley - Edgar Allen Poe Society site</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Susan_Archer_Talley_Weiss.png" target="_blank"> Susan Archer Talley Weiss image - Wikimedia</a>. By Century Company [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons</li>
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Occupation
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Artist
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ALDINE
CENTURY
HARPER'S MAGAZINE
PEOPLE'S HOME JOURNAL
SCRIBNER'S MONTHLY
SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER
WIDE AWAKE
Birth Date
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February 14, 1822
Generation
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1821-1830
Birthplace
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Hanover County, VA
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VA
Publication
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<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t5gb2z460;view=1up;seq=7" target="_blank">Talley, Susan Archer. <em>Poems</em>. New York: Rudd & Carleton, 1859.</a>
<a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33930" target="_blank">Weiss, Susan Archer. <em>The Home Life of Poe</em>. New York: Broadway Publishing Company, 1907.</a>
Publisher
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Rudd & Carleton
Broadway Publishing Company
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<p property="name" class="identitiesSectionHead"><a href="http://worldcat.org/identities/np-weiss,%20susan%20archer%20talley$1835/" target="_self">Weiss, Susan Archer Talley 1835-</a></p>
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Title
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WEISS, Mrs. Susan Archer
Description
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Susan Archer Talley Weiss was born in Hanover County, VA on February 14. A Woman of the Century lists her birth year as 1835, but other sources list it as 1822. Her family moved to Richmond when Susan was eight, and she lost her ability to hear two years later, due to Scarlet Fever. <br /><br />With the support of her father and her cousin, sculptor Alexander Galt, Susan cultivated her artistic and writing talents. She published in <a href="http://www.marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/show/113" target="_blank"><em>The Southern Literary Messenger</em></a> when she was eleven and began her writing career. During her career, she contributed many <a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moajrnl?c=moajrnl&cc=moajrnl&key=author&page=browse&value=Talley&Submit=Submit" target="_blank">pieces</a> to this prominent Richmond periodical. Susan's work was also available in book form, as Rudd & Carleton published her <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t5gb2z460;view=1up;seq=7" target="_blank">Poems</a> in 1859. On October 26, <em>The Richmond Dispatch</em> included an <a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84024738/1859-10-26/ed-1/seq-2/#date1=1789&sort=date&rows=20&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&index=18&words=Archer+Susan+Talley&proxdistance=5&date2=1963&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=Susan+Archer+Talley&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1" target="_blank">advertisement</a> noting that Susan's book was being sold for seventy-five cents at Randolph's Bookstore and Bindery on Main Street in Richmond. <em>The Nationa Era</em> <a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026752/1859-11-10/ed-1/seq-2/#date1=1789&sort=date&rows=20&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&index=19&words=Archer+Susan+Talley&proxdistance=5&date2=1963&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=Susan+Archer+Talley&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1" target="_blank">reviewed</a> her book on November 10, 1859.<br /><br />Susan's personal network in Richmond included Benjamin B. Minor, editor of <em>The Southern Literary Messenger</em>, Edgar Allan Poe, Rosalie Poe, and sculptor Edward Virginius Valentine. <br /><br />Her lengthy poem <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=dul1.ark:/13960/t8z902596;view=1up;seq=2" target="_blank">"The Battle of Manassas"</a> was published as a broadside in Richmond on August 3, 1861. When living in Norfolk during the Civil War, Susan apparently served as a <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/31929632" target="_blank">spy</a>, was caught, and spent time in confinement.<br /><br />She married Colonel Louis Weiss of the Union Army, started a family and moved to New York City. However, Susan's personal life was not a happy one and the couple divorced. Focusing on her writing to support herself and her son, Susan penned pieces for newspapers and magazines such as <a href="http://www.marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/show/32" target="_blank"><em>Scribner's Monthly</em></a> ("<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000011751272;view=1up;seq=992" target="_blank">Peter Bloch. A Hartz Legend,"</a> September 1871), <a href="http://marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/show/226" target="_blank"><em>The Aldine</em></a> ("The Best to Come," June 1875), <a href="http://www.marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/show/31" target="_blank"><em>Century Magazine</em> </a>("The Last Days of Poe," April 1878), <a href="http://www.marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/show/33" target="_blank"><em>Harper's Magazine </em></a>(May 1878), <em>Wide Awake</em> (June 1886), and <em>The People's Home Journal</em> (1904).<br /><br />In 1907, Broadway Publishing Company published Susan's <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33930" target="_blank"><em>The</em> <em>Home Life of Poe</em>.</a><br /><br />During her later years, she lived in Richmond with her son. She passed away there on April 7, 1917 and was buried in Riverview Cemetery.
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McMaster, MaryKate
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Susan Archer Weiss was born in Hancock County, VA on February 14, although the year of her birth is in question. She later lived in Richmond, VA, Norfolk, VA, and New York, NY.
1821-1830
1822
Aldine
Alexander Galt
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Century
deafness
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Edward Virginius Valentine
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National Era
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Rudd & Carleton
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Southern Literary Messenger
Susan Archer Weiss
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