Elizabeth Chase Allen

Elizabeth Akers Allen, c. 1881

Elizabeth Chase Akers Allen (October 9, 1832 – August 7, 1911) was an American author, journalist and poet.

Biography

Born Elizabeth Anne Chase on October 9, 1832, in Strong, Maine. She grew up in Farmington, Maine, where she attended Farmington Academy. She began to write at the age of fifteen, under the pen name "Florence Percy",[1] and in 1855 published under that name a volume of poems entitled Forest Buds. In 1851 she married Marshall S. M. Taylor, but they were divorced within a few years. In subsequent years she travelled through Europe; in Rome she became acquainted with the feminist Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis. While in Europe she served as a correspondent for the Portland Transcript and the Boston Evening Gazette. She started contributing to the Atlantic Monthly in 1858.[2] She married Paul Akers, a Maine sculptor whom she had met in Rome, in 1860; he died in 1861. In 1865 she married E. M. Allen, of New York. In 1866 a collection of her poems was published in Boston. She died in Tuckahoe, New York on August 7, 1911.

She is remembered for the first couplet from her poem "Rock Me to Sleep, Mother" (1859), which runs:

Backward, turn backward, O time, in thy flight;
Make me a child again, just for to-night.

Selected list of works

References

  1. ↑ Leonard, John William; Marquis, Albert Nelson, eds. (1908), Who's who in America, 5, Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, Incorporated, p. 17.
  2. ↑ "Allen, Elizabeth Anne Chase Akers". Encyclopædia Britannica. 2006. Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service. February 24, 2006.

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