page_title: Martha Wintermute
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Martha Wintermute / Career
context_page_description: Martha Wintermute was an American author and poet whose poems appeared in The Youth's Companion, as well as other papers and magazines. She was a writer of some celebrity, and the author of a volume entitled Eleven Women and Thirteen Men.
context_section_description: That poem was soon followed by others, which were received with favor by the public. In 1863, she married Dr. Alfred Wintermute (b. 1825), of Newark, Ohio, and for a number of years thereafter, she did not offer any poetry to the public. 
  In 1888, she began the revision and publication of her writings. In 1890, she brought out in a volume entitled Eleven Women and Thirteen Men, a prose story in the interest of temperance, also containing approximately 100 pages of her poetry, revised and corrected. After the publication of that volume, she published in the newspaper press a number of miscellaneous poems consisting of Easter Anthems, Decoration Day Poems, verses read before pioneer societies, and some on moral and religious topics.
caption: Martha Wintermute, "A woman of the century"
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