[Clarke]. American author, born in Pompey, Onondaga County, NY, on the 23rd of September 1823. She was educated at Rochester, NY, and in 1843 moved to New Brighton, PA. She began her literary career by writing a series of letters, under the pseudonym “Grace Greenwood,” to the New York Mirror. In 1853 she married Leander K. Lippincott, of Philadelphia. Mrs. Lippincott was a lecturer for the antislavery cause, and wrote Greenwood Leaves (first and second series, 1849 and 1851); Haps and Mishaps of a Tour in Europe (1852); Bonnie Scotland (1860); New Life in New Lands (1872); Stories for Home Folks (1885); and Stories and Sketches (1892). See also “The Poet of To-day” and “Choose.”
