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Mary Storer Potter became Longfellow's first wife in 1831 and died four years later. On September 14, 1831, Longfellow married Mary Storer Potter, a childhood friend from Portland. [ 36 ] The couple settled in Brunswick, but the two were not happy there. [ 37 ]
The author had also recently lost someone close to him. Longfellow's first wife, Mary Storer Potter, died in Rotterdam in the Netherlands after a miscarriage in 1836; Longfellow was deeply saddened by her death and noted in his diary: "All day I am weary and sad ... and at night I cry myself to sleep like a child." [1]
Longfellow retired from teaching in 1854 to focus on his writing, living the remainder of his life in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in a former headquarters of George Washington. His first wife Mary Potter died in 1835 after a miscarriage. His second wife Frances Appleton died in 1861 after sustaining burns when her dress caught fire.
Longfellow was further inspired by the death of his first wife, Mary Storer Potter, [3] and attempted to convince himself to have "a heart for any fate". [ 1 ] The poem was first published in the September 1838 issue of The Knickerbocker , [ 4 ] though it was attributed only to "L." Longfellow was promised five dollars for its publication ...
Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow Jr. was born in 1854, in Portland, Maine. He was the son of Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow Sr. (1814–1901), a United States Coast Survey topographer, and the former Elizabeth Clapp Porter.
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 Crown Returns to the Queen of the Fishes". Illustration by H. J. Ford for Andrew Lang's The Orange Fairy Book Folio Society editions of the Coloured Fairy Books. The best-known volumes of the series are the 12 Fairy Books, each of which is distinguished by its own color.
A scene from The Courtship of Miles Standish, showing Standish looking upon Alden and Mullins during the bridal procession. The Courtship of Miles Standish is an 1858 narrative poem by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow about the early days of Plymouth Colony, the colonial settlement established in America by the Mayflower Pilgrims.