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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 ...
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)
He and Fanny had six children: Charles Appleton (1844–1893), Ernest Wadsworth (1845–1921), Fanny (1847–1848), Alice Mary (1850–1928), Edith (1853–1915), and Anne Allegra (1855–1934). Their second-youngest daughter was Edith who married Richard Henry Dana III , son of Richard Henry Dana Jr. who wrote Two Years Before the Mast . [ 66 ]
Portrait of "grave Alice" (top), "laughing Allegra" (right), and "Edith with golden hair" (left) used to illustrate Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Children's Hour" circa 1859. Alice Longfellow was born on September 22, 1850, at "half past six" in the morning, "with the setting of the moon and the rising of the sun! and all the splendors of ...
Brattle Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, called the "King's Highway" or "Tory Row" before the American Revolutionary War, [1] is the site of many buildings of historical interest, including the modernist glass-and-concrete building that housed the Design Research store, [2] and a Georgian mansion where George Washington and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow both lived (though at different times ...
The 50th season of "SNL" premiered last month. Since the first show in 1975, 165 comedians and actors have been a part of "SNL.". Three new comedians joined for season 50. "Saturday Night Live" is ...
Anne Longfellow Pierce (1810–1901) was the last family member to live in the house. She deliberately kept the house much as it was in Peleg Wadsworth's time, but is perhaps best remembered for growing oranges in the window. [ 7 ]
Marian Adele Longfellow O'Donoghue (April 1, 1849 – January 23, 1924) was an American writer, one of the founders of the National League of American Pen Women, in 1897. Early life [ edit ]