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LUCY, an American poet; born in Beverly Farms, Mass., in 1826.

Mass., in 1826 .

In her youth she was a factory girl in Lowell, Mass.; was a student for a time at Monticello Seminary, Godfrey, Ill.; afterward taught school; but the greater part of her life was devoted to literary work. In 1866-1874 she edited "Our Young Folks." She wrote "Ships in the LARK Mist, etc.," stories (1859), and four or five volumes of poetry; also compiled and edited "Roadside Poems, etc. " (1876); "Hillside and Seaside in Poetry" (1877) ; etc. She died in Boston, Mass., April 17 , 1893.

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