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Kate Sanborn 1839 ~ 1917
Kate Sanborn
Is a native of New Hampshire, and was
the daughter of Professor Sanborn, who occupied the chair of
Latin and English literature, at Dartmouth College, for nearly
fifty years. Miss Sanborn is a descendant of Captain Ebenezer
Webster, the eminent Revolutionary hero, and grand-niece of
Daniel Webster.
Her literary talents were developed by
her father, who privately instructed her in the regular college
course, and at eleven years of age she was a contributor to the
Well-Spring, and at seventeen supported herself by her pen. She
became an instructor in elocution at the Packer Institute at
Brooklyn, and for five years filled the chair of English
literature at Smith College. Miss Sanborn was the originator of
Current Event classes in many of the literary clubs, and now so
common in every city of the United States in the form of Current
Topics classes.
Among her best-known works are "Adopting
an Abandoned Farm," and "Abandoning an Adopted Farm,"
"Witty Records" of her original ideas regarding farming, which
she put into practice upon an abandoned farm which she purchased
near Boston. Some of her other books are "Home Pictures of
English Poets," "A Truthful Woman in Southern
California," "Vanity and Insanity; Shadows of Genius,"
"Purple and Gold," "Grandmother's Garden," and
"My Literary Zoo."
She has been instrumental in gathering
and publishing a valuable historical work on New Hampshire. Few
women are so versatile and have reached superiority in so many
lines of work as has Miss Sanborn. She is teacher, reviewer,
compiler, essayist, lecturer, author, and farmer, and is famous
for her cooking and housekeeping.
Women of
America
Source: The Part Taken by Women in
American History, By Mrs. John A. Logan, Published by The Perry-Nalle
Publishing Company, Wilmington, Delaware, 1912.
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