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Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Born

in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, The United States

November 11, 1836

Died

March 19, 1907

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Aldrich travelled with his father in his early years. He returned to Portsmouth to study for college, but his father's death in 1852 required that he earn a living; first in a business office in New York, then, as a journalist. He contributed to numerous magazines and newspapers. Among them, the New York Illustrated News. In 1865, he moved to Boston where he was editor of Ticknor & Fields' Every Saturday magazine. In 1881, Aldrich was brought in as editor at the Atlantic Monthly, a position he held until 1890. He was a talented poet and published many volumes of verse.

Aldrich died at Boston on March 19, 1907. His last words were "In spite of it all, I'm going to sleep." ...more

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Average rating: 3.73 · 1,128 ratings · 152 reviews · 694 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Story of a Bad Boy 3.86 avg rating — 333 ratings — published 1869 — 264 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Marjorie Daw 3.63 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 1873 — 60 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stillwater Tragedy 3.63 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 1880 — 110 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cruise of the Dolphin really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1908 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Little Violinist 3.25 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Book of Famous Myths and Legends (The Young Folks' Library #6) by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (Editor), Thomas J. Sheehan (Introduction) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1901 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Midnight Fantasy 3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2008 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Our New Neighbors At Ponkapog 3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Christmas Fantasy with a Moral 2.58 avg rating — 12 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Old Town by the Sea 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1894 — 121 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“What is more cheerful, now, in the fall of the year, than an open-wood-fire? Do you hear those little chirps and twitters coming out of that piece of apple-wood? Those are the ghosts of the robins and blue-birds that sang upon the bough when it was in blossom last Spring. In Summer whole flocks of them come fluttering about the fruit-trees under the window: so I have singing birds all the year round.”
― Thomas Bailey Aldrich

tags: birds, happiness, imagery, seasons

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“What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.”
― Thomas Bailey Aldrich

tags: art, beauty, inspiration, lovely

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“So I sit there kicked my heels, thinking about New Orleans, and watching a morbid blue-bottle fly attempt to commit suicide by butting his head against the windowpane.”
― Thomas Bailey Aldrich, The Story of a Bad Boy

tags: new-orleans, south

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October 2026 Short Story/Novella Poll

The Long Rain by Ray Bradbury

41 votes, 29.3%

A Respectable Woman by Kate Chopin

24 votes, 17.1%

Transcendental Wild Oats by Louisa May Alcott

20 votes, 14.3%

November by Gustave Flaubert

17 votes, 12.1%

The Damned Thing by Ambrose Bierce

13 votes, 9.3%

Youth, a Narrativeby Joseph Conrad

12 votes, 8.6%

Break-Neck Hill by Esther Forbes

6 votes, 4.3%

The Sailor Boy's Tale by Isak Dinesen

4 votes, 2.9%

The Chaser by John Collier

2 votes, 1.4%

Marjorie Daw by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

1 vote, 0.7%

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