William Franklin

An engagement to William Franklin , natural son of Benjamin Franklin , ended, painfully for her, in his marriage to somebody else.

While she lived in London AJV moved in culturally active circles. She later described the poet Eleanor Anne Porden (who lived not far away) as her dear friend, and was one of those who...

Another of AJV 's contributions to the European Magazine appeared signed with her full initials: Epitaph designed for William Franklin , Esq. late Governor of New Jersey: Ob. Nov. 16, aged 82.

For her first few years of appearing there, AJV was almost the only woman in the longish list of poetry contributors to the European Magazine (although over the magazine's lifetime the eleven women who published...