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Alice Mary Longfellow (September 22, 1850 – December 7, 1928) was a philanthropist, preservationist, and the eldest surviving daughter of the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. She is best known as "grave Alice" from her father's poem " The Children's Hour ".
These archives are open to scholarly research by appointment. Across the street from the Longfellow House–Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site is the municipal park known as Longfellow Park. [46] The park was left undeveloped as a way to preserve an unobstructed view of the Charles River from the house. [51]
Alice Lee Roosevelt Longworth (February 12, 1884 – February 20, 1980) was an American writer and socialite. She was the eldest child of U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt and his only child with his first wife, Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt .
Henry Longfellow: Longfellow National Historic Site: 1843–1882 Cambridge: Before poet Longfellow resided here, it was the first headquarters of George Washington during the American Revolution. Longfellow lived in the house for almost 50 years. [36] Herman Melville
Ernest Longfellow was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and raised at Craigie House. He was the second of six children, including his younger sister Alice Mary Longfellow. Educated at Harvard College, he passed the winter of 1865 and '66 in Paris in work and study, and the summers of 1876 and '77 in Villiers-le-Bel under Couture. [1]
The poem describes the poet's idyllic family life with his own three daughters, Alice, Edith, and Anne Allegra: [1] "grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, and Edith with golden hair." As the darkness begins to fall, the narrator of the poem (Longfellow himself) is sitting in his study and hears his daughters in the room above. He describes them as ...
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Joseph Rusling Meeker (American, 1827–1889).The Acadians in the Achafalaya, "Evangeline", 1871.Oil on canvas. Brooklyn Museum. Evangeline describes the betrothal of a fictional Acadian girl named Evangeline Bellefontaine to her beloved, Gabriel Lajeunesse, and their separation as the British deport the Acadians from Acadie in the Great Upheaval.