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ALICE See also:CARY (1820-1871) , and See also:PHOEBE (1824-1871), See also:American poets, were See also:born at See also:Mount Healthy, near See also:Cincinnati, See also:Ohio, respectively on the 26th of See also:April 182o and the 4th of See also:September 1824 . Their See also:education was largely self-acquired, and their See also:work in literature was always done in unbroken companionship . Their poems were first collected in a See also: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 (1815-1857), the quasi-See also:dictator of American See also:verse, and See also:Horace See also:Greeley, occupied a prominent position in See also:literary circles . In 1868-1869 Alice See also:Cary served for a See also:short See also:time as the first See also:president of Sorosis, the first woman's See also:club organized in New York . Alice, who was much the more voluminous writer of the two, wrote See also:prose sketches and novels, now almost forgotten, and various volumes of verse, notably The See also:Lover's See also:Diary (1868) . Her lyrical poem, Pictures of Memory, was much admired by See also:Edgar See also:Allan See also: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 thought," written in 1852 . Alice died in New York See also:City on the 12th of See also:February 1871, and Phoebe in See also:Newport, Rhode See also:Island, on the 31st of See also:July of the same See also:year . The collected Poetical See also: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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