An American author, journalist and poet. She grew up in Farmington, Maine, where she attended Farmington Academy. She began to write at the age of fifteen, under the pen name Florence Percy, and in 1855, published under that name a volume of poems entitled "Forest Buds." In 1851, she married Marshall S. M. Taylor, but they were divorced within a few years. In subsequent years she travelled through Europe, in Rome she became acquainted with the feminist Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis. While in Europe she served as a correspondent for the Portland Transcript and the Boston Evening Gazette. She started contributing to the Atlantic Monthly in 1858. She married Paul Akers, a Maine sculptor in 1860, he died in 1861. In 1865, she married E. M. Allen, of New York. In 1866, a collection of her poems was published in Boston.
An American author, journalist and poet. She grew up in Farmington, Maine, where she attended Farmington Academy. She began to write at the age of fifteen, under the pen name Florence Percy, and in 1855, published under that name a volume of poems entitled "Forest Buds." In 1851, she married Marshall S. M. Taylor, but they were divorced within a few years. In subsequent years she travelled through Europe, in Rome she became acquainted with the feminist Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis. While in Europe she served as a correspondent for the Portland Transcript and the Boston Evening Gazette. She started contributing to the Atlantic Monthly in 1858. She married Paul Akers, a Maine sculptor in 1860, he died in 1861. In 1865, she married E. M. Allen, of New York. In 1866, a collection of her poems was published in Boston.
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