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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 ".
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 ...
Preservation efforts continued through the second half of the nineteenth century. In 1881, Alice Mary Longfellow, eldest surviving daughter of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, paid for the restoration and partial furnishment of Mount Vernon’s library. In 1888, women in Kansas raised $1,000 for the reconstruction of the servants’ quarters ...
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]
Charles Appleton Longfellow (1844–1893) Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow (1845–1921) ∞ 1868: Harriet "Hattie" Spelman; Fanny Longfellow (1847–1848) Alice Mary Longfellow (1850–1928) Edith Longfellow (1853–1915) ∞ Richard Henry Dana III (1851–1931) Anne Allegra Longfellow (1855–1934) George William Appleton (1826–1827)
Skeletal remains that were discovered on a beach in St Augustine, Florida nearly 40 years ago, have been identified as a mother-of-two who vanished in the late 1960s. Mary Alice Pultz, who was ...
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator. His original works include the poems "Paul Revere's Ride", "The Song of Hiawatha", and "Evangeline".
“Be the best of whatever you are.” — Martin Luther King, Jr. “Forever is composed of nows.” — Emily Dickinson “The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are ...