Biography

"Educated at Lancaster Academy; achieved fame in 1845 for her poem, "Little Things". She wrote for Universalist and other periodicals; many of her poems were set to music and published in school text-books or as hymns. She married 1849 Thomas J Carney, a Universalist minister; four of the couple's nine children died in infancy."

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Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Abigail_Fletcher_Carney

"Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney (pen names, Julia, Minnie May, Frank Fisher, Sadie Sensible, Minister's Wife, Rev. Peter Benson's Daughter; April 6, 1823 – November 1, 1908) was an American educator and poet. Remembered for her poem "Little Things", many of her poems were set to music and published in school text-books, and used in the hymn-books of churches for more than half a century. [1][2] In 1849, she married Thomas J. Carney, a Universalist minister. She died November 1, 1908, in Galesburg, Illinois.

Carney occupied the "Poet's Corner" in the Boston "Trumpet." She furnished articles, both prose and verse, for the "Christian Freeman" when it was established. Something by her appeared in almost every number of the "Rose of Sharon," and also in the "Lily of the Valley." In the "Universalist Miscellany" her articles bore the signature of "Rev. Peter Benson's Daughter". In 1840, she commenced writing for the "Ladies' Repository", under the signature of "Julia." She was a regular contributor to the "Boston Olive Branch."[3]

She also wrote two volumes, published by J. M. Usher, entitled Gifts from Julia, and a series of Sunday-school question books. Poetry of the Seasons was published by Abel Tompkins."