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Henrietta Gould Rowe

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Henrietta Gould Rowe
BornHenrietta Gould
1835
East Corinth, Maine, U.S.
DiedOctober 27, 1910
Nickname"Harriet"
Occupationlitterateur, author
LanguageEnglish
SubjectNew England
Spouse
James Swett Rowe
(m. 1856)

Henrietta Gould Rowe (née, Gould; 1835 – October 27, 1910) was an American litterateur and author of the long nineteenth century.

Biography

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Henrietta (sometimes "Harriet"[1]) Gould was born in East Corinth, Maine, 1835.[2][a] She was the daughter of Aaron and Sarah Gould. Rowe received an academic education.[1]

She married James Swett Rowe of Bangor, Maine on October 25, 1856. After her marriage, she removed to Bangor, Maine and resided thereafter in that city.[3][1]

She began to write as soon as she could make letters on her slate, but only after her marriage did she write for publication. She did a great deal of literary work in the subsequent decades, principally prose, with an occasional poem. She wrote for The Youth's Companion, Portland Transcript, Wide-Awake, and various other publications. Rowe published various volumes, including Re-told Tales of the Hills and Shores of Maine (1892); Queenshithe (1895); and A Maid of Bar Harbor (1902).[2] As an author, she received positive recognition, and her last book did fair to out-rival her Re-Told Tales, which passed through several editions.[3] She wrote poems and stories for many magazines, principally relating to New England life and character. She was also an educator of advanced pupils in history and literature, and a prominent clubwoman.[1]

Death

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Henrietta Gould Rowe died October 27, 1910.[4]

Works

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  • Re-told Tales of the Hills and Shores of Maine, 1892
  • Queenshithe, 1895
  • A Maid of Bar Harbor, 1902

Notes

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  1. ^ Though Moulton (1895) records her year of birth as 1834, all other publications recorded 1835.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Leonard & Marquis 1906, p. 1274.
  2. ^ a b Herringshaw 1914, p. 68.
  3. ^ a b c Moulton 1895, p. 455.
  4. ^ Marquis 1915, p. 927.

Bibliography

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  • Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Herringshaw, Thomas William (1914). Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States; Illustrated with Three Thousand Vignette Portraits ... (Public domain ed.). American Publishers' Association. p. 68.
  • Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Leonard, John William; Marquis, Albert Nelson (1906). Who's who in America. Vol. 2–4. Marquis Who's Who.
  • Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Marquis, Albert Nelson (1915). Who's who in New England: A Biographical Dictionary of Leading Living Men and Women of the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut (Public domain ed.). A.N. Marquis & Company.
  • Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Moulton, Charles Wells (1895). The Magazine of Poetry and Literary Review (Public domain ed.). C. W. Moulton.
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