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Portrait of Anne Allegra Longfellow (later Thorp), 1878. She and her sister Alice attended the Harvard Annex in 1879, the first year in its existence. Annie assisted her father with dictation in literary and legal matters during his periods of poor health until his death on March 24, 1882.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) Family Papers,...
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Aug 15, 2023 · Cambridge, Massachusetts, 28 February 1934. Mrs. Annie Longfellow Thorp, the "Laughing Allegra" of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's celebrated poem, "The Children's Hour," and the poet's youngest daughter, died today (28 February 1934) at the family home on Brattle street. She was 79 years old.
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- November 8, 1855
- Joseph Gilbert Thorp Jr.
- February 28, 1934
When Anne Allegra Longfellow was born on 8 November 1855, in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, was 48 and her mother, Frances Elizabeth Appleton, was 38. She married Joseph Gilbert Thorp Jr. in 1885. They were the parents of at least 5 daughters. She lived in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire ...
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- Joseph Gilbert Thorp Jr.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts, 28 February 1934 Mrs. Annie Longfellow Thorp, the Laughing Allegra of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's celebrated poem, The Children's Hour, and the poet's youngest daughter, died today (28 February 1934) at the family home on Brattle street. She was 79 years old.
Apr 2, 2010 · These photographs were taken in the early 1900s, most likely when Anne Allegra Longfellow Thorp and her husband Joseph Gilbert Thorp Jr. went on railroad trips to Black educational institutions in Richmond, VA, Birmingham, AL, and Columbia, SC in 1903, 1904, and 1905 respectively.
" The Children's Hour " is a poem by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, first published in the September 1860 edition of The Atlantic Monthly. Overview. The poem describes the poet's idyllic family life with his own three daughters, Alice, Edith, and Anne Allegra: [1] "grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, and Edith with golden hair."
