Ballad of the Canal

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Phoebe Cary was a US poet, and the younger sister of poet Alice Cary (1820-1871). The sisters co-wrote poems in 1849, and afterward each one of them kept on writing volumes of their own.

Phoebe Cary was born in Mount Healthy, Ohio nearby Cincinnati, and she and her sister Alice grew up in the Clovernook farm in what is today called as North College Hill, Ohio. While she and her sister grew up in a Universalist domiciliary and maintained administrative and spiritual outlooks that were substantial and reformist, they were always present in Methodist, Presbyterian, and Congregationalist services and were amiable with clergies of all these religious denominations and others.

While they casually go to school, the sisters were usually required to ran errands at home and thus were widely self-taught. Upon their mother’s death in 1835, and 2 years after that their father remarried. Their stepmother was totally insensitive about their literary goals. For their role, while they were prepared and willing to help to the entire extent of their strength in household duties, the sisters endured in a concentration to learn and write when household work was accomplished. Ever and again, they were sometimes unsuccessful with their career in writing.

Phoebe was a bit more sociable than her sister, she was a champion of women’s rights and for a brief time edited Revolution, a periodical issued by Susan B. Anthony. In 1848, their poetry was issued in the anthology Female Poets of America edited by Rufus Wilmot Griswold and, with his help, Poems of Alice and Phoebe Cary was issued in 1849. Poet John Greenleaf Whittier had been suggested to give a preface but declined. He presumed their poetry did not require his endorsement and also commented an overall aversion for prefaces as a way to “pass off by aid of a known name, what otherwise would not pass current”.
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