Alice Cary

For their part while the sisters were ready and while willing to aid to the full extent of their strength in household labor they persisted in a determination to study and write when the day's work was done. Their mother had died in 1835 and two years afterward their father married again. When Alice was 17 and Phoebe 13 they began to write verses which were printed in newspapers.

Alice Cary (April 26 1820 – February 12 1871) was an American poet and the sister of fellow poet Phoebe Cary (1824–1871).