Born: 15 September 1820, United States
Died: 2 November 1860
Country most active: United States
Also known as: Abby Allin Curtiss
The following is excerpted from A Cyclopædia of Female Biography, published 1857 by Groomsbridge and Sons and edited by Henry Gardiner Adams.
ALLIN, ABBY, is an American lady, whose poems have appeared in several periodicals with the signature “Nilla,” her own name reversed, during several years past. In 1850, her prose and poetical contributions to the Boston Journal were published. “Home Ballads, a book for New Englanders,” is the title of the work, which well describes its spirit and sentiment. “The writings of Miss Allin,” says a contemporary biographer, “are filled with warm sympathies for the working world; she has a cheerful, hopeful philosophy, and loves home, children, and friends. The expression of these feelings makes her ballads popular.”