The former Mary Whateley was now, by her second marriage, named Darwall, but her birth name had appeared on her earlier volume of poems. That volume includes this piece. Scholar Caroline Wigginton
thinks that the...
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Wigginton, Caroline. “A Chain of Misattribution: Phillis Wheatley, Mary Whateley, and ’An Elegy on Leaving’”. Early American Literature, Vol.
47
, No. 3, 2012, pp. 679-84.
Wigginton, Caroline. “Digitally Mapping the Transatlantic Lives and Texts of Black Women Authors of the Long Eighteenth Century”. 42nd ASECS Annual Meeting.