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Emma Lazarus, 1849 - 1887
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1849 |
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1866 |
Poems and Translations Written Between the Ages of Fourteen and Sixteen Begins correspondence with Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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1871 |
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1874 |
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1876 |
The Spagnoletto (drama) |
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1877 |
Begins translations of medieval Hebrew poets from German to English |
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1881 |
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1882 |
"An Epistle to the Hebrew" published serially in American Hebrew |
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1883 |
"New Colossus" written for Bartholdi Pedestal Fund Founds Society for the Improvement and Colonization of Eastern European Jews |
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1885 |
Father dies Travels to Europe |
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1887 |
"By the Waters of Babylon", a prose poem published in Century Returns from Europe in September, terminally ill |
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1888 |
The Poems of Emma Lazarus, two-volume selection published posthumously by her sisters |
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1903 |
Bronze tablet of "New Colossus" is placed in the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty |
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