Kate Sanborn

Katherine Abbott Sanborn (July 11, 1839 - July 9, 1917) was an American author, teacher and lecturer. She was born in Hanover, New Hampshire, the daughter of educator Edwin David Sanborn and his wife Mary Ann. She taught English literature in several places, and was a professor at Smith College in that subject for several years, resigning in 1886 in order to follow literary pursuits in New York City.

She lectured in public on literary history and allied subjects, and wrote on education. Her lecturing career began in the drawing room of her friend Anne Lynch Botta and later she gave talks for clubs and schools on current literature. For several years she was a newspaper correspondent in New York City. She also edited calendars and holiday books.

Bibliography

• Home Pictures of English Poets, for Fireside and Schoolroom (1869)
• Grandma's Garden, with Many Original Poems (1882)
• Kate Sanborn's Literature Lessons (1882)
• Purple and Gold (1882)
• Year of Sunshine (1884)
• Wit of Women (1885)
• Vanity and Insanity of Genius (1886)
• Adopting an Abandoned Farm (1891)
• Truthful Woman in Southern California (1893)
• Abandoning an Adopted Farm (1894)
• My Literary Zoo (1896)
• Starlight Calendar (1898)
• My Favorite Lectures of Long Ago, for Friends Who Remember (1898)
• Tact, and Other Essays (1899)
• Old Time Wall Papers (1905)
• Hunting Indians in a Taxi-cab (1911)
• Memories and Anecdotes (1915)
• Educated Dogs of To-day (1916)

References

•  "Sanborn, Edwin David". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. 1900. 
• Elizabeth Deering Hanscom (1963). "Sanborn, Katherine Abbott". Dictionary of American Biography. VIII, Part 2. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 327–8. 
• Library of Congress catalog (source of the Bibliography)

External links

• Works by Kate Sanborn at Project Gutenberg
• Kate Sanborn Papers held at Smith College Archives