it was a translation from the Latin of Ovid, and it so amazed the literary circles in Boston that they had it published. In 1768 she wrote ''To the King's Most Excellent Health,'' and in 1772 she composed a poem to her mistress, who was so moved that she freed Phyllis and sent her to England to regain her health. In 1773 her first book of poems was published, the second volume of poetry published by a woman in America.
With the London publication of her book, Poems on Various Subjects,Religious and Moral, her fame spread on both sides of the Atlantic, and she became a celebrity