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Chronology Note: Harper’s refers to the publishing company Harper & Bros.; Harper’s refers to Harper’s New Monthly Magazine. 1840: Woolson born on March 5th in Claremont, N.H., the fifth daughter of Charles and Hannah Cooper Pomeroy Woolson. Between March 21 and Apr. 3, sisters Julia (age 2), Gertrude (age 4), and Ann (age 5) die of scarlet fever. In winter, moves with parents and sisters Georgiana (age 9) and Emma (age 7) to Cleveland, Ohio, stopping first in Cooperstown to visit Cooper relatives. 1840s: Sister Clara born (1843). Sister Alida born (1845; dies1846). Brother Charles Jarvis Jr. born (1846). Late 1840s attends Miss Hayden’s school in Cleveland. 1850s: Attends Cleveland Female Seminary. Sister Georgiana marries Samuel Livingston Mather (1850). Samuel Mather born (1851). Sister Emma marries Rev. Timothy Carter (1851). Carter dies (1851). Emma dies (1852). Katharine Livingston Mather born (1853). Georgiana dies (1853). Begins summer visits to Mackinac Island , Mich. Visits to Wisconsin and to Zoar Community in Ohio likely occur in the 1850s. Graduates Madame Chegaray’s School, N.Y. (1858). 1861–66:WorksfortheUnioncauseduringtheCivilWar,spendingpartofhertime in New York and part in Cleveland. 1867: Sister Clara marries George Benedict Jr. 1869: Father, Charles Jarvis Woolson Sr. dies, possibly of a heart condition. 1870–71: George Benedict Jr. killed in train crash (1871). Spends time in Cleveland, with relatives in Cooperstown, and in New York City where she stays on 49 West 32nd Street. Publishes sketches “The Happy Valley” (Harper’s, July 1870); “Fairy Island ”(Putnam’s,July1870),“TheHauntedLake”(Harper’s,Dec.1871).Publishesessays “Spots” (Lippincott’s, May 1871), “Extremities. The Head and Hands” (Harper's Bazar, Oct. 21, 1871) “Extremities. The Feet.” (Harper’s Bazar, Nov. 18, 1871). Publishes poems “Charles Dickens. Christmas, 1870” (Harper’s Bazar, Dec. 31, 1870). Publishes stories “An October Idyl” (Harper’s, Nov. 1870), “A Day of Mystery” (Appletons ’, Sept. 9, 1871), “Cicely’s Christmas” (Appletons’, Dec. 30, 1871). Begins publishing “Letters from Gotham” in George Benedict’s Daily Cleveland Herald (Dec. 24, 1870, Jan. 10, 1871, Jan. 14, 1871, Jan. 21, 1871, Jan. 28, 1871, Feb. 4, 1871). • xxiv · Chronology 1872: Spends time in Cleveland at 131 St. Clair St. Publishes travel narratives “In Search of the Picturesque” (Harper’s, July), “American Cities—Detroit” (Appletons ’, July 27), “Round by Propeller, (Harper’s, Sept.). Publishes poems “The Herald ’s Cry” (Lippincott’s, Jan.), “Walpurgis Night” (Old and New, Jan.), “Love Unexpressed ” (Appletons’, March 9), “The Heart of June” (Galaxy, June), “Longing” (Appletons’, June 22), “Off Thunder Bay” (Harper’s, July), “Corn Fields” (Harper’s, Aug.), “Floating. Otsego Lake, September, 1872” (New York Evening Mail, Sept. 14), “Ideal. (The artist speaks.)” (Atlantic Monthly, Oct.), “October’s Song” (Harper’s, Oct.), “Lake Erie in September” (Appletons’, Oct. 12), “Christmas in the City” (Appletons ’,Dec. 28). Publishesstories“AMerry Christmas”(Harper’s, Jan.), “Margaret Morris” (Appletons’, Apr. 13), “Weighed in the Balance” (Appletons’, June 1), “One Versus Two” (Lippincott’s, Aug.), “Lily and Diamond” (Appletons’, Nov. 2). 1873: Stays at 131 St. Clair Street in Cleveland and at 61 West 17th Street in New York City. Wins thousand-dollar prize from D. Lothrop & Co. for The Old Stone House, a novel for children. Publishes travel narratives “The Wine Islands of Lake Erie” (Harper’s, June), “Mackinac Island” (Appletons’, March 8; Appletons’ Picturesque America, vol. 1), “The Bones of Our Ancestors” (Harper’s, Sept.), “Lakeshore Relics ” (Lippincott’s, Nov.), “Lake Superior” (Appletons’ Picturesque America, vol. 1), “The South Shore of Lake Erie” (Appletons’ Picturesque America, vol. 1). Publishes poems, “Commonplace” (Lippincott’s, Feb.), “February” (Appletons’, Feb. 8), “The Greatest of All is Charity” (Harper’s Bazar, Feb. 8), “March” (Harper’s, March), “Two Ways” (Ohio Farmer, Apr. 12, Atlantic Monthly, June), “Heliotrope” (Harper’s, July), “Sail-Rock, Lake Superior” (Appletons’, July 12), “Kentucky Belle” (Appletons ’, Sept. 6), “Hero Worship” (Harper’s, Oct.), “Cleopatra” (Appletons’, Oct. 4), “Memory” (Appletons’, Nov. 8), “The Haunting Face” (Appletons’, Dec. 6). Publishes stories “King Log” (Appletons’, Jan. 18), “On the Iron Mountain,” (Appletons’, Feb. 15), “Ballast Island” (Appletons’, June 28), “Solomon” (Atlantic Monthly, Oct.), “St. Clair Flats” (Appletons’, Oct. 4). 1874: Travels to St. Augustine by Apr., where she meets E. C. Stedman and begins a correspondence with him. Writes to William Dean Howells about her first submissions to Atlantic Monthly. Begins serious study of ferns. Travels, via Charleston, to Asheville, N.C., in June. Briefly leaves her mother for a trip to New York. Remains in Asheville until Oct. then returns via Chattanooga and Atlanta to St. Augustine, stopping along the...

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