Anne Reeve Aldrich

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]

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)

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)