Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney

Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney, born Julia Fletcher (April 6, 1823, Lancaster, Massachusetts – November 1, 1908, Galesburg, Illinois) was an American educator and poet. [Herringshaw, T. W., "Herringshaw's national library of American biography", 5 vols, 1909-14]

Educated at Lancaster Academy, Julia Fletcher achieved fame in 1845 for her poem "Little Things". [For different accounts of the publishing history of this poem, see Gardner, Martin, "Famous Poems from Bygone Days", 1995, p. 35] In 1849 she married Thomas J. Carney, a Universalist minister; four of the couple's nine children died in infancy. [ [http://www.hds.harvard.edu/library/bms/bms00669.html Litvin, Martin. Papers re: Julia Fletcher Carney, 1843-1988] at Andover-Harvard Theological Library]

Julia Fletcher Carney wrote for "Universalist" and other periodicals; many of her poems were set to music and published in school text-books or as hymns.

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