Anne Reeve Aldrich
{{Short description|American poet and novelist}}{{Infobox writer
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| image = ANNE REEVE ALDRICH.jpg
| caption = Portrait of Aldrich from "A Woman of the Century"
| notable_works = The Rose of Flame: And Other Poems of Love (1889)
| occupation = poet and novelist
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1866|04|25}}
| birth_place = New York City
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1892|06|28|1866|04|25}}
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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.{{cite book|author1=Frances Elizabeth Willard|author2=Mary Ashton Rice Livermore|title=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|url=https://archive.org/details/americanwomenfif01live|year=1897|publisher=Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick|pages=[https://archive.org/details/americanwomenfif01live/page/56 56]–}}
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.
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.{{cite book|title=The Magazine of Poetry and Literary Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UDU5AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA213|year=1890|pages=213–}}
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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- 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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External links
- {{wikisource-inline|Woman of the Century/Anne Reeve Aldrich}}
- [http://www.lehigh.edu/~dek7/SSAWW/writ19CenAldri.htm Anne Reeve Aldrich] at Society for the Study of American Women Writers
- [http://mypoeticside.com/poets/anne-reeve-aldrich Anne Reeve Aldrich] at "My Poetic Side"
- [http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Aldrich%2C%20Anne%20Reeve%2C%201866-1892 Books by Reeves] at Online Books Library
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