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In 1833, a woman named Catherine Williams was beginning to work on a new book.

She was a poet. She would write about the American Revolutionary War, and she was a biographer

who became very, very respected and well-known.

This is author Kate Winkler Dawson.

Catherine Williams was from her well-known family.

Her grandfather had been the Attorney General of Rhode Island.

She'd started making a living from writing five years earlier.

She'd published her first book when she was in her 40s.

She was successful enough to support her daughter by herself.

Catherine had divorced her husband a few years earlier.

And so for a woman, I cannot stress this enough,

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