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'''Rebecca S. Nichols''' ([[pen name]]s, '''Ellen''' and '''Kate Cleaveland'''; 1819-1903)<ref name="cbw.iath.virginia.edu"></ref> was an American poet.
Nichols was born in [[New Jersey]]. At an early age, she removed to the West, where soon after, in [[Louisville, Kentucky]], she was married. Her first published pieces appeared in the ''News-Letter'', a paper conducted by Prentice & Co., since which time, she has contributed much poetry to the various western periodicals. In 1844, she published a volume of poems, which was well received by the public, and favorably noticed by the press. Since the autumn of 1840, she resided in [[Cincinnati]].
The active literary career of Mrs. Nichols is embraced within the period of twelve years, from about 1840, though some of her riper productions are sparsely scattered over the five years subsequent to this period, while for the last few years, she seems to have withdrawn almost entirely from the field of belle-lettres.
==Biography==
Rebecca Shepard Reed was born in Greenwich, New Jersey. While she was yet a child, her father, E. B. Reed, a physician, removed with his family to the West, which has since been her home, with the exception of two or three years following 1852, when she resided at [[Philadelphia]] and in New Jersey. While residing at Louisville, in the year 1838, she married Willard Nichols, whom she accompanied to [[St. Louis]], [[Missouri]], in 1840, where Mr. Nichols embarked in the publication of a daily news and miscellaneous paper, in the editing of which, Mrs. Nichols assisted her husband. In 1841, Mr. Nichols and wife left St. Louis and removed to Cincinnati, where they continued to reside most of the time until 1851. This was a period of considerable literary activity in that region, which eventuated in the bringing out of some of the best writers the West has ever produced. Cotemporary with these, Mrs. Nichols became popular.
Mrs. Nichols's earliest poems were published in the ''Louisville News-Letter'', and ''Louisville Journal'', over the signature of "ELLEN". In 1844, she published a small volume entitled ''Berenice, or the Curse of Minna, and other Poems''. The principal poem in this volume is a girl-tragedy. Several of the minor pieces are of merit. Only a small edition of this book was printed.
In 1846, Mrs. Nichols conducted a literary periodical in Cincinnati, called ''The Guest'', which became quite popular, and in which she published many of her poetical compositions of that period. She was also a contributor to ''Graham's Magazine'', ''The Knickerbocker'', and other Eastern periodicals. Early in her Cincinnati career, Mrs. Nichols contributed to the ''Cincinnati Herald'', conducted by [[Gamaliel Bailey]], a series of papers under the ''nom de plume'' of "KATE CLEAVELAND".
This interruption into the field of literature was a puzzle to the critics and amateur literateurs of the Queen City, who, after exhausting all their ingenuity to discover the author, were forced to acknowledge that, whoever “Kate Cleaveland” might be, she was certainly a bright star in the literary firmament. Eventually, it became known that the author was Mrs. Nichols.
[[File:Rebecca S. Nichols (1851).png|thumb|Rebecca S. Nichols (1851)]]
In 1851, under the patronage of [[Nicholas Longworth]], was published a large and elegant volume of Mrs. Nichols's later poems, under the title of ''Songs of the Heart and of the Hearth-Stone'', from the press of Thomas, Cowperthwaite & Co., [[Philadelphia]], and J. F. Desilver, Cincinnati. Such was the established popularity of our author at this time, that the appreciative and enterprising publishers of the ''Cincinnati Commercial'', M. D. Potter & Co., entered into an arrangement with her, to pay a liberal price for an original poem for each week, if she chose to write so often, which arrangement was continued for some time. A collection of these and other later poems, with a selection from her previous publications, would furnish material for a new volume, which would add largely to the reputation of the author. The two published volumes do not contain anything of soulful eloquence equal to some of these later pieces.
From her first entrance into literary life, Mrs. Nichols dealt with difficulties. The untimely death of children, and the fluctuations of business, were a part of her young years. Of seven children, only two survived.
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'''Rebecca S. Nichols''' ([[pen name]]s, '''Ellen''' and '''Kate Cleaveland'''; 1819-1903)<ref name="cbw.iath.virginia.edu"></ref> was an American poet.
Nichols was born in [[New Jersey]]. At an early age, she removed to the West, where soon after, in [[Louisville, Kentucky]], she was married. Her first published pieces appeared in the ''News-Letter'', a paper conducted by Prentice & Co., since which time, she has contributed much poetry to the various western periodicals. In 1844, she published a volume of poems, which was well received by the public, and favorably noticed by the press. Since the autumn of 1840, she resided in [[Cincinnati]].
The active literary career of Mrs. Nichols is embraced within the period of twelve years, from about 1840, though some of her riper productions are sparsely scattered over the five years subsequent to this period, while for the last few years, she seems to have withdrawn almost entirely from the field of belle-lettres.
==Biography==
Rebecca Shepard Reed was born in Greenwich, New Jersey. While she was yet a child, her father, E. B. Reed, a physician, removed with his family to the West, which has since been her home, with the exception of two or three years following 1852, when she resided at [[Philadelphia]] and in New Jersey. While residing at Louisville, in the year 1838, she married Willard Nichols, whom she accompanied to [[St. Louis]], [[Missouri]], in 1840, where Mr. Nichols embarked in the publication of a daily news and miscellaneous paper, in the editing of which, Mrs. Nichols assisted her husband. In 1841, Mr. Nichols and wife left St. Louis and removed to Cincinnati, where they continued to reside most of the time until 1851. This was a period of considerable literary activity in that region, which eventuated in the bringing out of some of the best writers the West has ever produced. Cotemporary with these, Mrs. Nichols became popular.
Mrs. Nichols's earliest poems were published in the ''Louisville News-Letter'', and ''Louisville Journal'', over the signature of "ELLEN". In 1844, she published a small volume entitled ''Berenice, or the Curse of Minna, and other Poems''. The principal poem in this volume is a girl-tragedy. Several of the minor pieces are of merit. Only a small edition of this book was printed.
In 1846, Mrs. Nichols conducted a literary periodical in Cincinnati, called ''The Guest'', which became quite popular, and in which she published many of her poetical compositions of that period. She was also a contributor to ''Graham's Magazine'', ''The Knickerbocker'', and other Eastern periodicals. Early in her Cincinnati career, Mrs. Nichols contributed to the ''Cincinnati Herald'', conducted by [[Gamaliel Bailey]], a series of papers under the ''nom de plume'' of "KATE CLEAVELAND".
This interruption into the field of literature was a puzzle to the critics and amateur literateurs of the Queen City, who, after exhausting all their ingenuity to discover the author, were forced to acknowledge that, whoever “Kate Cleaveland” might be, she was certainly a bright star in the literary firmament. Eventually, it became known that the author was Mrs. Nichols.
[[File:Rebecca S. Nichols (1851).png|thumb|Rebecca S. Nichols (1851)]]
In 1851, under the patronage of [[Nicholas Longworth]], was published a large and elegant volume of Mrs. Nichols's later poems, under the title of ''Songs of the Heart and of the Hearth-Stone'', from the press of Thomas, Cowperthwaite & Co., [[Philadelphia]], and J. F. Desilver, Cincinnati. Such was the established popularity of our author at this time, that the appreciative and enterprising publishers of the ''Cincinnati Commercial'', M. D. Potter & Co., entered into an arrangement with her, to pay a liberal price for an original poem for each week, if she chose to write so often, which arrangement was continued for some time. A collection of these and other later poems, with a selection from her previous publications, would furnish material for a new volume, which would add largely to the reputation of the author. The two published volumes do not contain anything of soulful eloquence equal to some of these later pieces.
From her first entrance into literary life, Mrs. Nichols dealt with difficulties. The untimely death of children, and the fluctuations of business, were a part of her young years. Of seven children, only two survived.
==References==
===Attribution===
* }}
* }}
==External links==
*
[[Category:1819 births]]
[[Category:1903 deaths]]
[[Category:19th-century American poets]]
[[Category:People from Cumberland County, New Jersey]]
[[Category:American women poets]]
[[Category:19th-century American women writers]]
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