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(About the author:
Caroline Howard Gilman (1794–1888) was ...)
About the author:
Caroline Howard Gilman (1794–1888) was an American author. 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.
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).
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The lady's annual register and housewife's memorandum-book for 1839
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Vernon Grove: Or, Hearts as They Are. a Novel (Paperback) - Common
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Oracles from the poets A fanciful diversion for the drawing room
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Caroline Howard Gilman was an American writer. She edited one of the earliest children’s papers in the United States, the Southern Rosebud.
Background
Caroline Howard Gilman was born on October 8, 1794, in Boston, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Samuel Howard, a shipwright, and Anna (Lillie) Howard, a first cousin of Samuel Breck.
Her father died when Caroline was three years old, and her mother retired with her children to the country, living for brief periods in several New England towns before settling in Cambridge, Massachusets.
Education
Caroline remembered her early education as a perpetual passing from school to school.
Career
Gilman wrote out the multiplication table in rhyme and committed her school themes to verse.
At sixteen, she was confirmed in the Episcopal Church at Cambridge, and at eighteen she sacrificed little luxuries to buy a Bible with wide margins on which she wrote her deliberate religious convictions during several months of study.
When she was sixteen, one of her early poems, “Jephthah’s Rash Vow, ” was printed in a newspaper without her knowledge, an occurrence at which, she says, she wept bitterly. Nevertheless, in July 1817, another poem, “Jairus’s Daughter, ” was published with her full consent in the North American Review.
In 1832, she began to edit one of the earliest children’s papers in the United States, the Southern Rosebud, which in the following year became the Southern Rose, a magazine for older readers, and in 1839 was discontinued because of the failure of the editor’s health. Many of her contributions to this paper were collected and republished.
The Letters of Eliza Wilkinson during the Invasion of Charleston (1839), which she edited, one of the most pleasing memoirs of the Revolutionary period. She also wrote a memorial of her husband, Samuel Gilman (1860); and, in collaboration with her daughter, Mrs. Caroline Gilman Jervey, Poems by Mother and Daughter (1872). Her last poem was written just before her ninetieth birthday.
After the death of her husband, she remained in Charleston until 1870, when she returned to Cambridge.
At the time of her death, in her ninety- fifth year, she was making her home with a daughter in Washington, D. C. Mrs. Gilman considered herself primarily a writer for children.
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Views
Gilman's prose was of an unaffected and light-hearted character, and her poetry dealt with the beauties of nature and domestic affection, qualities which appealed to the sentiments of the time and which made her one of the most popular women writers of her day.
Connections
In December 1819, Gilman was married to Samuel Gilman, and with him settled in Charleston, South Carolina, where he had just been appointed a minister of the Second Independent Church.