Background
Harrison, Constance Cary was born on April 25, 1843 in Fairfax Company, Virginia, United States. Daughter of Archibald and Mominia (Fairfax) Cary.
Harrison, Constance Cary was born on April 25, 1843 in Fairfax Company, Virginia, United States. Daughter of Archibald and Mominia (Fairfax) Cary.
Educated by private governesses. Lived in Richmond, Virginia, during Civil War, then went abroad with widowed mother to complete her studies in music and languages.
Mother of Fairfax and Francis Burton H. Author: Old Fashioned Fairy Books. Bar Harbor Days; The Anglomaniacs. Crow’s Nest and Bellhaven Tales.
A Daughter of the South.
A Bachelor Maid; Externals of Modern New New York A Son of the Old Dominion.
Good Americans. A Princess of the Hills, 1901.
The Unwelcome Mistress Hatch (play). Latter-Day Sweethearts, 1906.
Transplanted Daughters, 1909. Recollections, Grave and Gay, 1911.
Home: Washington, Distric.
Married Burton Harrison, lawyer, and thereafter resided in New New York