Caroline howard gilman biography examples

American author . Name variations: Caroline Howard; (pseudonym) Clarissa Packard. Born Caroline Howard on October 8, 1794, in Boston, Massachusetts; died on September 15, 1888, in Washington, D.C.; daughter of Samuel Howard and Anna (Lillie) Howard; sister of Harriet Howard Fay ; her education was, she noted, "exceedingly irregular, a perpetual passing from school to school, from my earliest memory"; married Samuel Gilman (a Unitarian minister who wrote the poem "Fair Harvard"), in December 1819; children: Caroline Howard Jervey (1823–1877); Eliza Gilman ; as well as five other children, three of whom died in infancy.

Selected works:

Recollections of a Housekeeper (1834); The Lady's Annual Register and Housewife's Memorandum Book (1838); The Poetry of Travelling in the United States(1838); Recollections of a Southern Matron (1838); (editor) Letters of Eliza Wilkinson (1839); Tales and Ballads (1839); Love's Progress (1840)