Caroline Howard Gilman

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Caroline Howard Gilman, painted by John Wesley Jarvis, ca. 1820.

Caroline Howard Gilman (1794–1888) was an American author.

Biography

She was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the daughter of Samuel Howard, and married Rev. Samuel Gilman, a Unitarian who occupied a pastorate at Charleston, South Carolina, from 1819 to 1858. In 1832, she began to edit the Rosebud, a juvenile weekly newspaper, which subsequently took the name of the Southern Rose.

Some of her works enjoyed considerable popularity. Among them are:

Recollections of a New England Housekeeper (1835)
Recollections of a Southern Matron (1836)
Poetry of Traveling in the United States (1838)
Tales and Ballads (1839)
Ruth Raymond (1840)
Verses of a Life Time (1849)
Poems and Stories by a Mother and Daughter (1872), written with her daughter, Mrs. Jervey

Notes

References

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Thurston, H. T.; Moore, F., eds. (1905). "Gilman, Caroline Howard". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Gilman, Caroline Howard". Encyclopedia Americana.

External links

Wikisource has original works written by or about:
Caroline Howard Gilman

Recollections of a Southern Matron. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1838.

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 10198521 LCCN: n80131589

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Name	Gilman, Caroline Howard
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Short description	American writer
Date of birth	1794
Place of birth
Date of death	1888
Place of death

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