Written Beneath a Crucifix

Author: Anne Reeve Aldrich

Miss Anne Reeve Aldrich, poet and novelist, born in New York City, 25th April, 1866. From her earliest childhood she showed a fondness for composition, spending hours from the time she learned to print in writing stories and verses, although she had the usual healthy childish tastes for romping and all out-of-door sports. At the death of er father, which occurred in her eighth year, her mother removed to the country, where she at first took charge of her daughter's education, which was afterward carried on by competent tutors. Miss Aldrich displayed remarkable proficiency in composition and rhetoric, which was cuonterbalanced by what she herself calls an amusing inaptitude for mathematics, so that, while she was translating French and Latin… Go to person page >