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Caroline Kirkland (1801-1864)

Teaching Strategies for Kirkland by Judith Fetterley "The Schoolmaster's Progress" (1844). Brief synopsis of the story and  and a biographical sketch at the "Scribbling Women" site of the Public Media Foundation. Brief biography from Bedford/St. Martin's Related links: The F. O.C. Darley Society website.  An illustrator of works by Irving, Poe, Hawthorne, Stowe, Cooper, Longfellow, Sigourney and many others, Darley illustrated the fourth edition of A New Home, Who'll Follow?or Glimpses of Western Life. (New York, C.S. Francis, 1850); the fifth edition, which also includes the images, is available at the Library of Congress from the links below.  Image courtesy of the Legacy  Site

Works Available Online A New Home, Who'll Follow? or, Glimpses of Western Life.  Published under the pseudonym Mrs. Mary Clavers, an actual settler.  New York: C. S. Francis, 1839. HTML text at the Library of Congress Page images at the Library of Congress. HTML at the University of Virginia Forest Life. 2 vols. By the Author of "A New Home." New York: C. S. Francis, 1842. Volume 1 at the University of Virginia Volume 2 at the University of Virginia Western Clearings. 2 vols. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1845. Introduction. A Plea for Women. By Mrs. Hugo Reid. New York: Farmer and Daggers, 1845. Spenser and the Fairy Queen. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1847. "George Sand and the Journeyman Joiner." Union Magazine 1 (Nov. 1847): 222-23. Preface. Dacotah, or, Life and Legends of the Sioux around Fort Snelling. by Mrs. Mary Eastman. New York: John Wiley, 1849. Holidays Abroad, or Europe from the West. 2 vols. New York: Baker and Scribner, 1849. "Literary Women." Sartain's 6 (Feb.. 1850): 150-54.. "The Mystery of Visiting." Sartain's 6 (May 1850): 317-21. "The Household." Sartain's 7 (Aug. 1850): 42-46. The Evening Book, or, Fireside Talk on Morals and Manners, with Sketches of Western Life. New York: Charles Scribner, 1852. The Helping Hand, Comprising an Account of the Home for Discharged Female Convicts and an Appeal in Behalf of that Institution. New York: Charles Scribner, 1853. Autumn Hours and Fireside Reading. New York: Charles Scribner, 1854. Personal Memoirs of Washington.  New York: D. Appleton, 1857. The School-Girl's Garland. New York: Charles Scribner, 1864. Patriotic Eloquence: Being Selections from 100 years of National Literature. New York: Charles Scribner; Cleveland: Ingham and Bragg, 1866. Comments to D. Campbell.