The Cary Sisters (Abridged)

"THE wittiest woman in America is dead. There are others who say many brilliant things; but I doubt if there is another so spontaneously and pointedly witty, in the sense that Sidney Smith was witty, as Phoebe Cary."

So wrote famed writer, Mary Clemmer Ames, about her friend.

Brilliant, witty, iconoclastic, Alice and Phoebe Cary were much beloved writers of the Victorian period. Praised by influential critics including Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, and Horace Greeley, their work tod...