Caroline Virginia Krout (c. 1852–1931) was an American writer. She was born in Balhinch, near

Crawfordsville, Indiana Crawfordsville is a city in Montgomery County in west central Indiana, United States, west by northwest of Indianapolis. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 16,306. The city is the county seat of Montgomery County, the only cha ...

, in about1852. She wrote several novels and a collection of short stories under the pen name Caroline Brown. In addition to being an author, she was a teacher at

Crawfordsville High School Crawfordsville High School is a former public high school erected in 1910 on East Jefferson Street in Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, Indiana, and was a part of the Crawfordsville Community Schools. The building was expanded in 1914, 1921, a ...

and wrote articles for regional newspapers. She died in 1931.

Family

Her older sister

Mary Hannah Krout Mary Hannah Krout (November 3, 1851 – May 31, 1927) was an American journalist, author, and advocate for women's suffrage. Early years and education Mary Hannah Krout was born November 3, 1851 in Crawfordsville, Indiana to Robert Kennedy and Car ...

was also a noted author and journalist.

Bibliography

*''Bold Robin and His Forest Rangers''. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1905. *''Dionis of the White Veil''. Boston: L.C. Page, 1911. *''Knights in Fustian: A War-Time Story of Indiana''. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1900. *''On the We-a Trail: A Story of the Great Wilderness''. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1903.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Krout, Caroline Virginia 1850s births 1931 deaths American women writers People from Montgomery County, Indiana