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[Up] [Dromo's Den] Alice Cary Biography CARY, Alice (1820-71) and Phoebe (1824-71). Two American poets, born near Cincinnati, Ohio. They gained their first success by Poems of Alice and Phoebe Cary (1850). In 1851 Alice issued The Clovernook Papers (2d series, 1853), and Clovernook Children (1854), tales of Western life. In 1850 the sisters moved to New York, where Alice published: Lyra and Other Poems (1852; enlarged 1855); Lyrics and Other Hymns (1866); The Lover's Diary (1867); Snow Berries, a book for young folks (1869); Hagar: A Story of To-Day (1852); Married, Not Mated (1856); Pictures of Country Life (1857); The Bishop's Son (1857); and The Adopted Daughter (1859). All these are excellent in domestic description. Phoebe published: Poems and Parodies (1854); Poems of Faith, Hope, and Love (1868) ; with numerous hymns (chiefly in Hymns for All Christians, edited by C. F. Deems, 1869), and occasional pieces. Her best-known hymn is "Nearer Home." Under the friendship and patronage of Horace Greeley the sisters achieved literary and social success in New York and maintained it for nearly two decades. They died within three months of each other. A collected edition of their poems appeared posthumously. Consult Mary C. Ames, Memorial of Alice and Phoebe Cary (New York, 1873), and Trent, History of American Literature (New York, 1903). The New International Encyclopaedia, Vol. IV. (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1920) 615-616. |