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Grace Seixas Nathan
portrait by Henry Inman
Born	11 November 1752  Stratford
Died	8 November 1831  (aged 78) New York
Occupation	Writer
Spouse(s)	Simon Nathan
Children	Seixas Isaac Mendes Nathan
Family	Gershom Mendes Seixas, Moses Seixas

Grace Seixas Nathan (1752–1831) was a Jewish-American poet and a member of a prominent Sephardic family.

Biography

Grace Seixas was born on November 11, 1752, in Stratford, Connecticut. In 1780, she married Simon Nathan, a merchant and a supporter of the American Revolution. The couple had one son, Isaac Mendes (born 1785–1852). Seixas Nathan died in New York on November 8, 1831. Her poetry was never published in her lifetime. In 1947, some of her correspondence was published by the American Jewish Historical Society.

She was the great-grandmother of poet Emma Lazarus.

References

1. Kaufman, A. L. (1998). Cardozo (Vol. 16). Harvard University Press.
2. Snyder, Holly. "Grace Seixas Nathan." Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women. December 31, 1999. Jewish Women's Archive. (Viewed on February 2, 2023).
3. de Sola Pool, D. (1947). Some Letters of Grace Seixas Nathan, 1814–1821. Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society, (37), 203–211.
4. Schor, Esther H. (2017). Emma Lazarus. Internet Archive. New York : Schocken. pp. 3–4. ISBN 978-0-8052-4275-1.

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