[1] About the year 1854, two of Tucker's poems appeared in The National Era which soon became popular, and which afterwards, periodically, went the rounds of the press.

In 1849, when she was twelve years old, her family removed to Fulton, New York, where she was reared and carefully educated.

She was then a slight, winsome, vivacious girl, with curling golden hair and large expressive gray eyes which, during conversation, fairly glowed and talked in unison with her lips.

[1] She began composing poetry at an early age, and by the time she was 17, she produced two poems that subsequently became familiar to all readers of literature of that era, "Going Up and Coming Down" and "Cometh a Blessing Down".

These poems received favorable comments from George Pope Morris, who copied them into the Home Journal.