Elizabeth Chase Allen

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

Biography

Born Elizabeth Anne Chase, 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 on August 7, 1911 in Tuckahoe, New York.

A couplet for which she is remembered consists of lines 1 and 2 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.

Among her works, which include both prose and poetry, are:

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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