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From The Kentucky Encyclopedia –
Amelia
B. (Coppuck) Welby, poet, daughter of William and Mary Coppuck, was born in St.
Michael's, Maryland, on February 3, 1819. She went to school in Baltimore,
where her family had moved shortly after her birth. In 1833 they moved to Lexington,
Kentucky, and in 1834 to Louisville. Her poetry was published in the Louisville
Journal in 1837, and under the tutelage of the paper's editor, George D.
Prentice , her popularity grew. In 1845 Poems By Amelia was
published, and by 1860 it had reached its seventeenth edition. This collection
touched on a variety of topics: love, death, children, nature, religion, and
brides. Her best-known poem was " The Rainbow." In June 1838
Amelia Coppuck married George Welby, a Louisville businessman, and in March
1852 she gave birth to a son. She died on May 3, 1852, and was buried in Louisville's
Cave Hill Cemetery.
See
William Ward, A Literary History
of Kentucky (Knoxville, Tenn.,1988).
Selected Sources from UK Libraries:
Amelia. Poems. Boston: A. Tompkins, 1845. Print.
PS3158.W3 P6 1845, Special Collections Research Center
Amelia. Poems. 2d Ed., Enl.. ed. New-York, Philadelphia: D. Appleton ; G. S. Appleton, 1846. Print.
PS3158.W3 P6 1846, Special Collections Research Center
Amelia. Poems. A New Enl. Ed. Illus. with Original Designs by Robert W. Weir.. ed. New York: D. Appleton &, 1850. Print.
811 W441a, Special Collections Research Center
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