American author, born in New York City, on the 12th of January 1801. She married William Kirkland, the author, in 1827, and in 1842 established a girls’ boarding-school in New York City. Later she became the editor of the Union Magazine, which in 1848 was removed to Philadelphia and published as Sartain’s Magazine. She wrote, among other publications, A New Home; Who’ll Follow? (1839); Western Clearings and Essay on the Life and Writings of Spenser (1846); Garden Walks With the Poets (1854); Memoirs of Washington (1857); Personal Memoirs of George Washington (1858); and The Destiny of Our Country (1864). She died in New York on the 6th of April 1864, having succumbed to overwork induced by efforts in behalf of the great Sanitary Fair of that year.
