Alice Cary

Alice Cary ( born April 26, 1820 Mount Heather / Ohio; † February 12, 1871 in New York City ) was an American writer.

Cary's first poem, The Child of Sorrow, published in 1838 in Sentinel, the universalist journal of Cincinnati. She has published in the next few years more poems in national newspapers and magazines. From 1847 she wrote prose for Gamaliel Bailey's National Era magazine, in Harriet Beecher Stowe 's famous novel Uncle Tom's Cabin appeared. Rufus W. Griswold took of her poems and her younger sister Phoebe Carey in his collection The Female Poets of America and arranged the publication of the 1849 volume of poetry Poems of Alice and Phoebe Cary.

From 1851 lived Alice and Phoebe Cary as respected members of the literary Gesellsfhaft in New York. Your Sunday evening receptions were famous, and it appeared as guests Horace Greeley, Bayard Taylor, Richard Stoddard, Robert Dale Owen, Oliver Johnson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Mary E. Dodge, Jane Cunningham Croly, Edwin H. Chapin, Henry M. Field, Charles F. Deems, Samuel Bowles, Thomas B. Aldrich, Anna E. Dickinson, George Ripley, Henry Wilson, Justin McCarthy and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

Overall, Cary has published four books of poetry, two collections of poems and stories for children and three novels. Your place in the American literary history, she found, however, particularly as a writer of short stories that appeared in collections Clovernook or Recollections of Our Neighborhood in the West ( 1852) and Clovernook 's Children (1855 ).

Works

  • Poems of Alice and Phoebe Cary (1849 )
  • Clovernook Papers (Boston, 1852)
  • Hagar, a Story of To- day (1852 )
  • The Clovernook Children (1855 )
  • Lyra and other Poems (1853 )
  • Married, Not Automated (1856 )
  • Pictures of Country Life (1859 )
  • Lyrics and Hymns (1866 )
  • The Bishop's Son (1867 )
  • The Lover 's Diary (1867 )
  • Snow- Berries: A Book for Young Folks (1869 )
  • The Born Thrall (novel, unfinished)

Swell

  • Appletons ' Cyclopædia of American Biography / Cary, Alice
  • Find A Grave - Alice Cary
  • Cengage Online Learning Center - Alice Cary
  • " The Female Poets of America" ​​, pp. 372 ff
  • Woman
  • Born in 1820
  • Died in 1871
  • Author
  • Novel, epic
  • Poetry
  • Children 's and Youth Literature
  • Literature ( English )
  • Literature (United States)
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