Background
Born Caroline Reynolds in 1840 in Evansburg, Pennsylvania, she was the daughter of the Review John Reynolds who was an English clergyman who had emigrated to the United States in about 1825.
Born Caroline Reynolds in 1840 in Evansburg, Pennsylvania, she was the daughter of the Review John Reynolds who was an English clergyman who had emigrated to the United States in about 1825.
He was a Brigadier-General in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Their only child, a son, died young. Her social circle included Robert Browning, Thomas Carlyle, Charles Darwin, Benjamin Disraeli, George Eliot, Charles Hale, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ellen Terry, Mark Twain, and William Thackeray.
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In 1918, with difficulties in England due to the First World War, she returned to the United States. She died in Erie, Pennsylvania in 1930.
A biography and selected correspondence were published in 1960 by Mary Reed Bobbitt. Her papers are held by the Five College Consortium.