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Alice Cary
American writer
For the American educator, librarian, and civil rights activist, see Alice Dugged Cary.
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Alice Cary (April 26, 1820 – February 12, 1871) was an American poet, and the older sister of fellow poet Phoebe Cary (1824–1871).
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Alice Cary was born on April 26, 1820, in Mount Healthy, Ohio, off the Miami River near Cincinnati.[1] Her parents lived on a farm bought by Robert Cary in 1813 in what is now North College Hill, Ohio.
Alice Cary was an American poet, and the older sister of fellow poet Phoebe Cary.
He called the 27 acres (110,000 m2) Clovernook Farm. The farm was 10 miles (16 km) north of Cincinnati, a good distance from schools, and the father could not afford to give their large family of nine children a very good education.
But Alice and her sister Phoebe were fond of reading and studied all they could.
While the sisters were raised in a Universalist household and held political