Caroline Kirkland (12 January 1801-6 April 1864), a mid-nineteenth-century New York literary woman of quite comprehensive abilities and ambitions, is known today primarily for three early works that i...
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Eight years after Caroline Kirkland had first received critical acclaim for her novel A New Home--Who'll Follow? Or, Glimpses of Western Life (1839), she was asked to serve as editor of the newly foun...
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The appearance of A New Home--Who'll Follow" in 1839 caused, in the words of Edgar Allan Poe, "an undoubted sensation." Written by an actual western settler, this collection of wilderness sketches by ...
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Caroline M. Kirkland, most famous for her novel A New Home--Who'll Follow? or, Glimpses of Western Life (1839), edited the Union Magazine of Literature and Art, founded and taught in several girls' ...
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Caroline M. Kirkland
