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CARY, ALICE (1820-1871)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 438 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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CARY, ALICE (1820-1871) , and See also:

PHOEBE

PHOEBE (1824-1871), See also:

AMERICAN

American poets, were See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

MOUNT, WILLIAM SIDNEY (1807-1868)

Mount Healthy, near See also:

CINCINNATI

Cincinnati, See also:

OHIO

Ohio, respectively on the 26th of See also:

APRIL

April 182o and the 4th of See also:

SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1824. Their See also:

EDUCATION

education was largely self-acquired, and their See also:

WORK

work in literature was always done in unbroken companionship. Their poems were first collected in a See also:

VOLUME

volume entitled Poems of Alice and Phoebe See also:

Carey [sic] (185o). In 1850-1851 they removed to New See also:

York, where the two sisters, befriended by See also:

Rufus W.See also:

GRISWOLD, RUFUS WILMOT (1815–1857)

Griswold (1815-1857), the quasi-See also:

DICTATOR (from the Lat. dictare, frequentative of dicere, to speak)

dictator of American See also:

VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse, and See also:

HORACE [QuINTus HORATIUS FLACCUS] (65-8 B.C.)

Horace See also:

Greeley, occupied a prominent position in See also:

LITERARY

literary circles. In 1868-1869 Alice Cary served for a See also:

SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short See also:

time as the first See also:

PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president of Sorosis, the first woman's See also:

CLUB (connected with " clump ")

club organized in New York. Alice, who was much the more voluminous writer of the two, wrote See also:

PROSE

prose sketches and novels, now almost forgotten, and various volumes of verse, notably The See also:

LOVER, SAMUEL (1797-1868)

Lover's See also:

DIARY

Diary (1868). Her lyrical poem, Pictures of Memory, was much admired by See also:

Edgar See also:

Allan See also:

POE, EDGAR ALLAN (18og-1849)

Poe. Phoebe published two volumes of poems (1854 and 1868), but is best known as the author of the hymn " Nearer See also:

Home," beginning " One sweetly See also:

SOLEMN (Lat. sollemnis, sollemnis, less correctly solennis, yearly, annual; from sollus = totus, whole, entire, Gr. Mos., and annus, year)

solemn thought," written in 1852. Alice died in New York See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

City on the 12th of See also:

FEBRUARY

February 1871, and Phoebe in See also:

NEWPORT

Newport, Rhode See also:

ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

Island, on the 31st of See also:

JULY

July of the same See also:

YEAR

year. The collected Poetical See also:

WORKS

Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary were published in See also:

Boston in 1886. See Mrs See also:

Mary Clemmer See also:

Ames's Memorial of Alice and Phoebe Carey (New York, 1873).

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