Talk:Maria White Lowell

Birth year
I just want to acknowledge a possible discrepancy in Maria White's birthdate. Her birth year is listed here as 1821, which matches her headstone at Mount Auburn Cemetery. This source gives her birth as 1827. This would mean she was married at age 17 (to a man 8 years older), which is certainly not unusual for the period. I'm not sure which is correct so I'm making no changes right now. --Midnightdreary (talk) 14:16, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

"Two Hearts" Quote
I've been trying to track down the origination of the "two hearts that beat as one" quote. The Internet has many people claiming it was from Keats, but I haven't found evidence to support this. I have found that the quote appears in the play "Ingomar the Barbarian", but there are two odd things about its authorship: 1 - Most sources give the author's name as "Maria Lovell". Is this Maria White Lowell? 2 - A few sources (e.g. http://www.amazon.com/Ingomar-barbarian-Frenchs-standard-drama/dp/B0008949A0/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1333733813&sr=1-3) give authorship to Friedrich Halm. Is it possible that Lovell/Lowell was merely the translator? 66.66.149.221 (talk) 17:51, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
 * I think it's okay to take out of the article entirely due to this confusion. --Midnightdreary (talk) 18:10, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
 * I'd rather not remove it. I think we're hot on its track. BTW, I found a reference to Ingomar being written in 1842 (http://www.yournorthhills.com/blog/fphistory/i-didnt-know-ingomar). The key to this mystery seems to be establishing the definitive authorship of this play. 66.66.149.221 (talk) 18:14, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
 * This newspaper article (http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1898&dat=19100827&id=rwkiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3WwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2565,3622190) seems to give the answer: "'The author of the play,' added Mr. (Edward P.) Sullivan, 'was Baron Hessen, a German, and the English translation was by Maria Lovell, the wife of one of the greatest dramatic critics England ever had.'" Also, this book (http://books.google.com/books?id=pLSUHRimU8cC&pg=PA86&lpg=PA86&dq=who+wrote+ingomar+the+barbarian?&source=bl&ots=nUJzQtGmHI&sig=1NWqgc82WvqYsBGLKrQ5SqvbBZw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=0jJ_T4qUEoWs8ASehqjUBw&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=who%20wrote%20ingomar%20the%20barbarian%3F&f=false) says: "(Ingomar was) probably a work, originally by German dramatist E.F.J. von Munch-Bellinghausen, that was translated into English by Maria Lovell and performed as Ingomar the Barbarian in 1851."  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.66.149.221 (talk) 18:35, 6 April 2012 (UTC)