Cary, ALICE

Cary, ALICE, American author, born 26th April 1820, near Cincinnati, Ohio, removed in 1852 to New York, where she died 12th February 1871. Her poems, stories, and sketches are graceful and natural, and full of charming pictures of domestic life; and the Clovernook Papers (2 series, 1851–53), which embrace some of her happiest efforts, are said to be partly autobiographical.—Her sister, PHÆBE, born 4th September 1824, joined Alice in New York in 1852. She published independently several volumes of buoyant, pleasant verse, and contributed a third of the Poems of Alice and Phæbe Cary (1850). She died 31st July 1871. See Mrs Ames's Memorial of the sisters (New York, 1873).