American poetess, born in Mount Washington, MA, on the 9th of October 1863. She is a sister of Dora Read Goodale, and with that sister published Apple Blossoms, Verses of Two Children (1878); In Berkshire with the Wild Flowers (1879); and Verses from Sky Farm (1880). She has published, independently, The Journal of a Farmer’s Daughter (1881). Mrs. Eastman, as Elaine Goodale, early in life was interested in Indian education and was for a time teacher at the Hampton (VA) Indian Institute, and at the White River Camp school, in South Dakota. She was married in 1891 to Dr. C. A. Eastman, a full-blooded Sioux Indian. See also “A Countrywoman of Mine,” etc.
