Larcom, Lucy

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Larcom, Lar kum, Lucy 1826-1893, an American poet, born in Beverly, Mass. While she was working in the mills at Lowell, Mass., she contributed to the journal, Lowell Offering. Later she compiled with Whittier Child-Life and Songs of Three Centuries. She studied at the Monticello Female Seminary in Illinois and afterwards taught in the Wheaton Female Seminary in Masschusetts. She was assistant editor and editor of Our Young Folks from 1865 to 1874, and spent the last years of her life at Beverly Farms, Mass. Among her works are Similitudes, Ships in the Mist and Other Stories, The Sun-Beam, and Other Stories and Leila Among the Mountains.