Caroline Howard Gilman (1794–1888)

American author, born in Boston, on the 8th of October 1794. At the age of sixteen she wrote her first poem, entitled Jephthah’s Rash Vow, and this was followed by Jairus’s Daughter. In 1819 she married Dr. Samuel Gilman, and from that year until 1870 resided in Charleston, SC, and then went to Cambridge, MA. From 1830 to 1839 she edited The Rosebud (afterward The Southern Rose), a magazine for children, from which were republished two volumes of Recollections and other selections, which became popular favorites. She died at Washington, DC, on the 15th of September 1888. See also “Annie in the Graveyard” and “To the Ursulines.”