H. B. Goodwin

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H. B. Goodwin
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BornHannah Elizabeth Bradbury
(1827-03-16)March 16, 1827
Chesterville, Maine
DiedJune 1, 1893(1893-06-01) (aged 66)
OccupationNovelist, poet
NationalityAmerican
EducationFarmington Academy
Genrenovels

Hannah Elizabeth Bradbury Goodwin Talcott (March 3, 1827 – June 1, 1893) was an American novelist, poet and educator from Maine and who resided in Boston for many years.

She was Born Hannah Elizabeth Bradbury in Chesterville, Maine, to Benjamin and Elizabeth Lowell Bradbury.[1] Her school life was spent mainly in Farmington Academy.[2] Before her marriage, she had written many short stories and sketches, which were published in magazines and papers under her initials, H. B. or H. E. B. She was a teacher of girls in Bangor, Maine, and afterward principal of the Charlestown Female Seminary in Boston. She was married on July 15, 1857 to George Clinton Goodwin, a Boston drug manufacturer.[3][4]

Her first novel was Madge (New York, 1864), and was favorably received. Goodwin regarded it as the least worthy of her books. Her second book, Sherbrooke (New York, 1866'), is a story of New England life. The success of that story was instantaneous. Her third book, Dr. Howell's Family (Boston, 1869), was written during months of great physical pain, and many readers regard it as the author's strongest work. After the publication of that book, Goodwin was for several years an invalid and employed her pen only in writing short stories and sketches and letters from Europe to religious newspapers. One Among Many (Boston, 1884), added to the well earned success of its author and gave new evidence of her ability to represent real life. Another of her well-known stories is Christine's Fortune (Boston), a picture of German life. Our Party of Four (Boston, 1887), describes a tour in Spain. Perhaps to Dorothy Gray the highest praise came from critics and literary friends. She also compiled a volume of essays on art and history.[2]

Her husband died in 1869,[3] and she was later known as Mrs. Goodwin Talcott. For the last 16 years of her life she was strongly associated with the educational work of Wellesley College. She was an active member of its board of trustees and of its executive committee, and also wrote and read to the students of Wellesley many essays on art, the studies for which were made in the great art centers of Europe, where she traveled in England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain.[2] She died in Boston on June 1, 1893.[5]

Works[]

  • 1863, Madge; or, Night and morning
  • 1863, Roger Deane's work
  • 1866, Sherbrooke
  • 1869, Dr. Howell's family
  • 1873, A spray from Lucerne
  • 1876, The fortunes of Miss Follen
  • 1881, Christine's fortune
  • 1886, Elizabeth and the roses : a legend of Hungary
  • 1887, Our party of four : a story of travel
  • 1891, Indian summer
  • 1891, Dorothy Gray : an Indian Summer idyl

References[]

  1. ^ Cutter, William Richard, ed. (1917). Memorial Encyclopedia of the State of Massachusetts. Boston: American Historical Society. p. 10.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c Willard 1893, p. 325.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b Finley, E. C. (1927). "Goodwin and Allied Families". Americana. American Historical Society. 21 (1): 55–68.
  4. ^ Griffith, George Bancroft, ed. (1888). The Poets of Maine: A Collection of Specimen Poems from Over Four Hundred Verse-Makers of the Pine-Tree State. Portland: Elwell, Pickard & Company. pp. 523–526.
  5. ^ Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1893. New York: D. Appleton and Company. 1894. p. 554.

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  • Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: F. E. Willard's A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life (1893)
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