Anne Reeve Aldrich
American poet and novelist
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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 | |
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Portrait of Aldrich from "A Woman of the Century" | |
| Born | April 25, 1866 |
| Died | June 28, 1892 (aged 26) |
| Occupations | poet and novelist |
| Writing career | |
| Notable work | The Rose of Flame: And Other Poems of Love (1889) |
Biography
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
- 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)
