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Mrs. Caroline Matilda Kirkland
(Born: January 12, 1801 - Died: April 6, 1864)
American editor and author. Caroline Matilda Stansbury was born in New York City, and educated in private schools in Poughkeepsi and New Hartford, NY. She married William Kirkland on January 19, 1828. After his death, in 1846, she edited the Union Magazine, where she rejected Poe’s poem “Ulalume” on the advice of Richard Henry Stoddard. Her son, Joseph Kirkland (1830-1894) was a novelist.
Her pseudonyms include “Mrs. Mary Clavers” and “Aminadab Peering.”
- Notice from “The Literati”
- “Caroline M. Kirkland” (“The Literati of New York City” - No. IV) — August 1846 — Godey’s Lady’s Book
- “Caroline M. Kirkland” (“The Literati”) — 1850 — WORKS
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- Duyckinck, E. A. and G. L., “Caroline M. Kirkland,” Cyclopedia of American Literature, New York: Charles Scribner, 1856, 2:562-566
- Heartman, Charles F. and James R. Canny, A Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Hattiesburg, MS: The Book Farm, 1943.
- Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, “Mrs. Kirkland’s ‘Essay on Fiction’,” Bulletin of the New York Public Library, July 1960, 64:395-397.
- Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vols 2-3 Tales and Sketches), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978. (Second printing 1979)
- Reece, James B., Poe and the New York Literati: A Study of the “Literati” Sketches and of Poe’s Relations with the New York Writers, unpublished doctoral dissertation, Duke University, 1954.
- Roberts, Audrey, “Caroline Matilda Stansbury Kirkland,” American Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide from Colonial Times to the Present, ed. Lina Mainiero, New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing, 1970, 2:471-473
- Thomas, Dwight and David K. Jackson, The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849, Boston: G. K. Hall & Sons, 1987.
- Wilson, James Grant and John Fiske, eds., Appleton’s Cyclopedia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1889, 3:556 (in an entry on Samuel Kirkland, and with a portrait on p. 555)
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