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Anne Reeve Aldrich
Portrait of Aldrich from "A Woman of the Century"
Born	(1866-04-25)April 25, 1866 New York City
Died	June 28, 1892(1892-06-28) (aged 26)
Occupation	poet and novelist
Notable works	The Rose of Flame: And Other Poems of Love (1889)

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.

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.

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)

References

1. ^ Frances Elizabeth Willard; Mary Ashton Rice Livermore (1897). 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. Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick. pp. 56–.
2. The Magazine of Poetry and Literary Review. 1890. pp. 213–.

External links

• [REDACTED] Works related to Woman of the Century/Anne Reeve Aldrich at Wikisource
• Anne Reeve Aldrich at Society for the Study of American Women Writers
• Anne Reeve Aldrich at "My Poetic Side"
• Books by Reeves at Online Books Library
• Works by Anne Reeve Aldrich at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)

• 1866 births
• 1892 deaths
• American women poets
• American women novelists
• 19th-century American poets
• 19th-century American novelists
• Poets from New York (state)
• Writers from New York City
• 19th-century American women writers
• Novelists from New York (state)