Background
Cooke, Rose Terry was born on February 17, 1827 in near Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Daughter of Henry Wadsworth and Anne (Harlbut) Terry.
Cooke, Rose Terry was born on February 17, 1827 in near Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Daughter of Henry Wadsworth and Anne (Harlbut) Terry.
Graduate Hartford Female Seminary, 1843.
Taught school, Hartford and Burlington, New Jersey. Became governess until able to support herself by writing, circa 1860. Contributor poems to New York Tribune.
Writings include: Poems, 1860, Happy Dodd, or She Hath Done What she Could (collected short stories), 1878. Somebody’s Neighbors, 1881. Root-Bound and Other Sketches, 1885.
The Spinx’s Children and Other People’s, 1886. Steadfast (novel), 1889. Poems include My Apple Tree, The Sheepfold, The River, The Snow-Filled Nest, Trailing Arbitus.
Married Rollin H. Cooke, 1873.