1849

Bolton, Mrs. Sarah T. "Pocahontas. Suggested by Reading Robert Dale Owen's Drama." [New York] Home Journal 8.158 (February 17, 1849): 4. Bolton was a rather well known popular poet in her day and associated with Owen (for the play referenced here, see 1837) in radical causes like property rights for women. And this journal, edited by Nathaniel Parker Willis and George Morris (represented several times in this archive), was a very popular journal. The poem has three parts, the first two very familiar descriptions of the rescues. But the third describes Rolfe freeing Pocahontas from imprisonment that was not as hospitable as the traditional historical account holds: "Then there was the sound of conflict by the massive prison door: / . . . It was Rolfe, her Yengeese lover, who stood beside her now; / She felt his arms around her, felt his kisses on her brow; / Sweet words of love were falling, like a bird-song on her ear, / Doubt and danger were forgotten, there was nothing more to fear. / Forgotten was the prison, with its darkness and its chain, / She loved, and she was conscious that she was loved again."
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