Phoebe Cary

Phoebe Cary, born on September 4, 1824, in North College Hill, Ohio, was a poet, a women’s rights activist, and the younger sister of Alice Cary. With her sister, she cowrote The Poems of Alice and Phoebe Carey (T. Y. Crowell & Company, 1903).She authored Poems of Faith, Hope, and Love (Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1892) and Poems and Parodies (Ticknor, Reed & Fields, 1854). Cary died five months after Alice on July 31, 1871, in Newport, Rhode Island.