Background
Donlevy, Harriet Farley was born on February 18, 1817 in Claremont, New Hampshire, United States. Daughter of Review Stephen and Lucy (Saunders) Farley.
Donlevy, Harriet Farley was born on February 18, 1817 in Claremont, New Hampshire, United States. Daughter of Review Stephen and Lucy (Saunders) Farley.
Educated public schools, Atkinson, New Hampshire (U.S.), Academy, and Hampton Falls Academy. Was trained for teacher and taught in some country schools, but disliking the occupation went to work in cotton mills at Lowell. Edited The Lowell Offering, a mill girls’ magazine, 1840-1848.
Afterward contributor, editor and later publisher New England Offering, until 1850.
The quality of the work attracted wide attention at home and abroad.
She edited a collection of her father’s writings, 1851. Author: Shells from the Strand of the Sea of Genius (selections from Lowell Offering), 1847. Happy Hours at Hazel Nook, 1852.
Christmas Stories.
Married John Intaglio Donlevy, inventor, 1854 (died 1872).