Anne Reeve Aldrich

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.[1]

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.[1]

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.[2]

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

Facsimile of a poem draft by Anne Reeve Aldrich

• 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

• 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)