Cary
Cary names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below. 1 of them is described by more than one encyclopedia.
Cary ka'ri, Alice and Phoebe
Described by 2 of the 6 encyclopedias.
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
ka'ri, Alice and Phoebe, American poets. They were the children of a plain farmer near Cincinnati. Alice was born April 26, 1820; Phoebe, September 4, 1824. They were educated in the district school. Alice was tender and sad; Phoebe, witty and joyous. Their mother died while they were young. They did the housework together and began writing poetry and articles for such magazines as would accept their contributions. Whittier gave them much encouragement. In 1849 a volume of their poems was published. The next year Alice went to New York to live, and sent for Phoebe a few months later. Money began to come in from their writings. Soon they were able to move into a pretty little house where the literary people of the city, including Horace Greeley, a staunch friend, were quite in the habit of dropping in for an evening, or at a weekly reception. Both sisters died in 1871, Alice first, and were buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn. In life and in death the sisters were inseparable; their poems are published together in a single volume. Instead of trying to tell the good they did, and instead of giving the names of their chief poems, we take the space for a quotation from each, and a quotation from a poem by Whittier written on the occasion of Alice's death: With hand on the spade, and heart in the sky, Dress the ground and till it; Turn in the little seed, brown and dry, Turn out the golden millet. Work, and your house shall be duly fed; Work, and rest shall be won; I hold that a man had better be dead Than alive, when his work is done. --Alice Cary, Work. One sweetly solemn thought Comes to me o'er and o'er; I am nearer home today Than I ever have been before; Nearer my Father's house, Where the many mansions be; Nearer the great white throne, Nearer the crystal sea; Nearer the bound of life, Where we lay our burdens down; Nearer leaving the cross, Nearer gaining the crown! --Phoebe Cary, Nearer Home. Unseen of her, her fair fame grew, The good she did she rarely knew; Unguessed of her in life, the love That rained its tears her grave above. --Whittier, The Singer.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ALICE, an American poetess, porn near Cincinnati, O., April 26, 1820. When quite young she began writing sketches and poems for the press. In 1852 he, with her sister PHOEBE (q. v.) removed to New York City, where they lived during the rest of their lives. In 1850 the sisters published a volume entitled "Poems by Alice and Phœbe Cary." Alice soon after published "Clovernook, or Recollections of Our Neighborhood in the West" (1851-1853), "Hagar, a Story of To-day" (1852), "Married, Not Mated" (1856), "The "Th Lover's Diary" (1867), and "Snow Berries: A Book for Young Folks" (1869). She died in New York City, Feb. 12, 1871.
Cary ANNIE LOUISE, an American singer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ANNIE LOUISE, an American singer; born in Wayne, Me., Oct. 22, 1842; studied in Milan, made her operatic début in Copenhagen in 1868, had a successful European career for three years, and returned in 1870 to the United States, where she won great popularity and remained, with the exception of one brilliant European tour, until 1882, when she married Charles M. Raymond, and retired from the stage while her voice was still unimpaired. Since then she has appeared only in private or for charity.
Cary PHEBE, an American poetess and prose-writer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
PHEBE, an American poetess and prose-writer, sister of Alice; born in Cincinnati, O., Sept. 4, 1824; contributed numerous sketches to various periodicals; and like her sister published many books, among which are "Poems and Parodies" (1854), and "Poems of Faith, Hope, and Love" (1868). She died in New- ;port, R. I., July 31, 1871.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
All three Carys were already dead or retired when these entries were written, and the biographical facts still stand. Annie Louise Cary, whom Collier's in 1921 describes in the present tense as still singing "in private or for charity," died that same year in Connecticut, having been retired from the stage since 1882. The sisters' verse, which Aiton's in 1910 presented as too well known to need listing, has largely dropped out of print; Phoebe's "One Sweetly Solemn Thought" survives mainly as a hymn, while Alice's Ohio sketchbook "Clovernook" has been recovered by late-20th-century scholars of American women's regional writing and is the one book of hers still read. Both sisters remain buried at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.
Written for this edition, 2026.