American authoress, daughter of General John Whiting; born at Lancaster, MA, on the 1st of June 1800. At the age of twenty-four she married Nicholas M. Hentz, a French teacher, and in 1831 moved with him to Covington, KY, where they conducted a young ladies’ seminary. She wrote plays and novels of a rather sensational character, dealing mostly with Society in the Southern states. Among her works are De Lara, a tragedy, which won a prize of $500 offered by the directors of the Arch Street Theater, Philadelphia; Linda (1850); The Planter’s Northern Bride (1854); and Ernest Linwood (1856). See died on the 11th of February 1856.
