Alice Cary (April 26, 1820 - February 12, 1871) was a poet born near Cincinnati, Ohio. April 26 is the 116th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (117th in leap years). ... 1820 was a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... February 12 is the 43rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1871 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Poets are authors of poems, or of other forms of poetry such as dramatic verse. ... Cincinnati, The Queen City (also The Queen of the West, The Blue Chip City, The City of Seven Hills, and also referred to as Cincy) is a city in Southwestern Ohio, United States. ...
Her parents lived on a farm at a distance from good schools, and could not afford to give their large family of nine children a very good education. But Alice and her sister Phoebe were fond of reading and studied all they could. When Alice was seventeen and Phoebe thirteen years old they began to write verses, which were printed in newspapers. And in 1849 they published a book called Poems of Alice and Phoebe Cary. This made them well-known, and the next year they moved to New York City, where they gave themselves up to writing, and won much fame. 1849 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... City nickname: The Big Apple Location in the state of New York Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area - Land - Water 1,214. ...
Alice wrote, besides poetry, several stories in prose, among which were The Clovernook Children and Snow Berries, a Book for Young Folks.
AliceCary (April 26, 1820-February 12, 1871) and Phoebe Cary (September 4, 1824-July 31, 1871) were in their day well known and loved for their poetry and other writings.
Alice often claimed that the ghost of little Lucy, in her favorite red dress, was seen a number of times on the farm, once by a young nephew unaware of the child's existence.
Fetterley characterizes Alice, as a writer of fiction, as "a master of the uncanny, of the dream sequence, of narrative generated by the logic of deeply interior and nonrational psychic life," in the tradition of Edgar Allen Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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