American author, second wife of James Thomas Fields, whom she married in 1854, published Under the Olive (1880), a book of verses; James T. Fields: Biographical Notes and Personal Sketches (1882); Authors and Friends (1896); The Life and Letters of Harriet Beecher Stowe (1897); and Orpheus (1900). See also “Theocritus,” “A Memory of Interlachen,” “Death of Hawthorne,” “The River Charles” and “A Thousand Years in Thy Sight Are but as One Day.”