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American poet and novelist
Anne Reeve Aldrich
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Born
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1866-04-25
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April 25, 1866
New York City
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Died
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(1892-06-28)
(aged 26)
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Occupation
| poet and novelist
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Notable works
| The Rose of Flame: And Other Poems of Love (1889)
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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)
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