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Cary, Alice

author, poet, was born April 26, 1820, in Cincinnati, Ohio. She was an Ohio writer who came with her sister Phoebe to New York city in 1852, and as poet and novelist became prominent in literary circles there. The weekly receptions of the sisters were attended by artists and writers for many years. Her books of verse include Lyra, and Other Poems; A Lover's Diary; Ballads, Lyrics, and Hymns; Early and Late Poems (with Phœbe Cary, infra). Her other works are Clovernook, a book of the type of Miss Mitford's Our Village; Pictures of Country Life; the novels, Hagar; The Bishop's Son; Married, not Mated. Snowberries, a juvenile; From Year to Year; and A Token of Remembrance. She died Feb. 12, 1871, in New York.

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