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Caroline Kirkland

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Profession
Novelist
Died
Apr 6, 1864
Zodiac
Capricorn
Born in
New York
About
Remembered for such American frontier-themed books as Forest Life, Western Clearings, and A New Home; Who'll Follow, this nineteenth-century writer also established several schools in New York and belonged to a literary circle that included notable poets William Cullen Bryant and Edgar Allan Poe.
Family
She and her husband, New York Evening Mirror editor William Kirkland, married in 1828 and subsequently became parents to five children, including a son, Joseph Kirkland, who had a career as a novelist.

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