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{{citazione|Though singularly liberal and unsectarian in her views, [Alice] always preserved a strong attachment to the church of her parents, and, in the main, accepted its doctrines. Caring little for creeds or minor points, she most firmly believed in human brotherhood as taught by Jesus; and in a God whose loving kindness is so deep and so unchangeable that there can never come a time even the vilest sinner, in all the ages of eternity, when if he arises and go to Him, his Father will not see him afar off, and have compassion upon him.<ref>{{Cite web |author=June Edwards |url=http://uudb.org/articles/carysisters.html |title=The Cary Sisters |publisher=Unitarian & Universalist Dictionary of Biography |website=uudb.org |accessdate=May 25, 2016 |date=March 20, 2003 |archive-date=June 11, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160611105241/http://uudb.org/articles/carysisters.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>}}
When Alice was 17 and Phoebe 13, they began to write verses, which were printed in newspapers. Their mother had died in 1835, and two years afterward their father married again. Their stepmother was wholly unsympathetic regarding the literary aspirations of Alice and Phoebe. For their part, while the sisters were ready and while willing to aid to the full extent of their strength in household labor, they persisted in a determination to study and write when the day's work was done. Sometimes they were refused the use of candles to the extent of their wishes, and the device of a saucer of lard with a bit of rag for a wick was their only light after the rest of the family had retired.<ref name="appletons">{{
Alice's first major poem, "The Child of Sorrow", was published in 1838 and was praised by influential critics including [[Edgar Allan Poe]], [[Rufus Wilmot Griswold]], and [[Horace Greeley]].<ref>Reynolds, David S. ''Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville''. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1988. {{ISBN|0-674-06565-4}}. p. 398</ref> Alice and her sister were included in the influential anthology ''The Female Poets of America'' prepared by Rufus Griswold.<ref>Bayless, Joy. ''Rufus Wilmot Griswold: Poe's Literary Executor''. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1943. p. 213</ref> Griswold encouraged publishers to put forth a collection of the sisters' poetry, even asking [[John Greenleaf Whittier]] to provide a preface. Whittier refused, believing their poetry did not need his endorsement, and also noting a general dislike for prefaces as a method to "pass off by aid of a known name, what otherwise would not pass current".<ref>Woodwell, Roland H. ''John Greenleaf Whittier: A Biography''. Haverhill, Massachusetts: Trustees of the John Greenleaf Whittier Homestead, 1985: 232</ref> In 1849, a Philadelphia publisher accepted the book, ''Poems of Alice and Phoebe Cary'', and Griswold wrote the preface, left unsigned. By the spring of 1850, Alice and Griswold were often corresponding through letters which were often flirtatious. This correspondence ended by the summer of that year.<ref>Bayless, Joy. ''Rufus Wilmot Griswold: Poe's Literary Executor''. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1943. p. 214–215</ref>
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