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Born: 01/11/1801  NY
Died: 04/06/1864
Parents: Samuel Stansbury, Eliza Stansbury
Spouse: William Kirkland
Children: Elizabeth, Joseph, Lydia, Sarah, Cordelia Stansbury, William, Charles Pinckney
Address(es):
interred in Brooklyn, New York

Image	Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
	Chicago Yesterdays: a Sheaf of Reminiscences	Non Fiction, History	Adult	Chicago, IL : Daughaday	1919
	Some African Highways: a Journey of Two American Women to Uganda and the Transvaal	Non Fiction, Travel	Adult	London: Duckworth	1908
	The Story of Chicago - World's Columbian Exposition, 1893	Non Fiction, Biography	Adult	Chicago, IL : Dibble Publishing	1892-1894
	The School-Girl's Garland	Poetry	Adult	New York: Charles Scribner's Sons	1864
	Personal Memoirs of George Washington	Biography	Adult	New York, NY : D. Appleton	1857
	Autumn Hours and Fireside Reading	Fiction	Adult	New York, NY : Charles Scribner	1854
	A Book for the Home Circle, or, Familiar Thoughts on Various Topics, Literary, Moral and Social: a Companion for the Evening Book	Non Fiction	Adult	New York, NY : Charles Scribner	1853
	The Helping Hand : comprising an account of the Home, for discharged female convicts, and an appeal in behalf of that institution	Non Fiction	Adult	New York, NY : Charles Scribner	1853
	Garden Walks with the Poets	Poetry	Adult	New York, NY : G. P. Putnam's Sons	1852
	The Book of Home Beauty - With twelve portraits of American ladies from drawings by Charles Martin.	Non Fiction	Adult	New York, NY : G. P. Putnam's Sons	1852
	The Evening Book, or, Fireside Talk on Morals and Manners	Non Fiction	Adult	New York, NY : Charles Scribner	1852
	Holidays Abroad; or, Europe from the West	Non Fiction, Travel	Adult	New York, NY : Baker and Scribner	1849
	Sartain's Union Magazine of Literature and Art - Editors C. M. Kirkland and J. S. Hart	Fiction	Adult	Philadelphia, PA : John Sartain & Company	1849-1851
	Spenser and the Faery Queen	Fiction	Adult	New York, NY : Wiley and Putnam	1847
	Western Clearings	Non Fiction	Adult	New York, NY : Wiley and Putnam	1846
	Forest Life	Non Fiction, Michigan	Adult	New York, NY : C.S. Francis	1842
	A New Home-Who'll Follow?: or, Glimpses of Western Life - Published under the pseudonym Mrs. Mary Clavers, an actual settler. The story of how the author settled in a crude frontier town in Michigan explodes the romantic myth of life in the wilderness.	Non Fiction, Michigan History	Adult	New York, NY : C. S. Francis	1839

What is the aim or goal of your writing: 1st ed. says, "Mrs. Kirkland was vigorous and realistic in her writing about the Michigan Frontier, so much so that she was deeply resented by her neighbors.

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: No

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

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Caroline came to Michigan from New York with her husband and they founded Pinckney, Michigan. After her husband drowned, she wrote to make a living. She returned to New York in 1843 and her home attracted Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson and other writers. During her last years she was identified with numerous organizations for social welfare and operated a girls school.She died suddenly in 1864; among the pallbearers at her funeral were William Cullen Bryant and Nathaniel Parker Willis." She could read and speak French, German, Italian, Latin. She traveled abroad from 1848 to 1850. Regarding one of her pseudnyms: Clavers in the Scotchish language means idle gossip.

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