Anne Reeve Aldrich (April 25, 1866 – June 28, 1892) was an American poet and novelist. Her works include The Rose and Flame and Other Poems and The Feet of Love.[1]

Anne Reeve Aldrich
Portrait of Aldrich from "A Woman of the Century"
Portrait of Aldrich from "A Woman of the Century"
Born(1866-04-25)April 25, 1866
New York City
DiedJune 28, 1892(1892-06-28) (aged 26)
Occupationpoet and novelist
Notable worksThe Rose of Flame: And Other Poems of Love (1889)

Biography

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Aldrich was born in New York City on April 25, 1866. Her father died when she was eight; her mother moved to the country, where she educated Aldrich. By the time she was a teenager, Aldrich was proficient in composition and rhetoric, and was able to translate French and Latin literature into English, and to name many local plants and insects.[1]

Aldrich wrote poetry often from a young age. At age 17, she was published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Poems in other periodicals followed and eventually led to published collections of poems.[2]

Her first volume of poetry, The Rose of Flame, was published in 1889. A second volume, Songs About Love, Life, and Death, was published posthumously.

Aldrich died at the age of 26 in New York on June 28, 1892.

Selected works

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Facsimile of a poem draft by Anne Reeve Aldrich
  • The Rose of Flame: And Other Poems of Love (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1889)
  • The Feet of Love (New York: Worthington Co, 1890)
  • Songs About Life, Love and Death (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1892)
  • Nadine and Other Poems (New York, 1893)
  • Gabriel Lusk (New York: C.T. Dillingham, 1894)
  • A Village Ophelia (New York: G.W. Dillingham, 1899)

References

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  1. ^ a b Frances Elizabeth Willard; Mary Ashton Rice Livermore (1897). American Women: Fifteen Hundred Biographies with Over 1,400 Portraits : a Comprehensive Encyclopedia of the Lives and Achievements of American Women During the Nineteenth Century. Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick. pp. 56–.
  2. ^ The Magazine of Poetry and Literary Review. 1890. pp. 213–.
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