Rebecca S. Nichols

Rebecca S. Nichols (, Reed; pen names, Ellen and Kate Cleaveland; October 28, 1819 – June 21, 1903) was a 19th American poet from New Jersey. At an early age, she removed to the West. She was among the first of the writers in the "young West" to receive popular recognition for her prose and poetry. Her first published pieces appeared in the Louisville, Kentucky News-Letter, a paper conducted by Prentice & Co., since which time, she contributed much poetry to the various western periodicals. Beginning in the autumn of 1840, she resided in Cincinnati. Her period of literary activity, which began in 1839, extended over sixteen years, till 1855. She did not write a great deal after that, though some of her better productions were sparsely scattered over the five years subsequent to this period.

Early life Rebecca Shepard Reed was born in Greenwich, New Jersey, October 28, 1819. of old age.

Selected works Berenice, or the Curse of Minna, and other Poems, 1844 Songs of the Heart and of the Hearth-Stone, 1851