Ellen Clementine Howarth (born Ellen Clementine Doran in

Cooperstown, New York Cooperstown is a village in and county seat of Otsego County, New York, United States. Most of the village lies within the town of Otsego, but some of the eastern part is in the town of Middlefield. Located at the foot of Otsego Lake in the C ...

, May 17, 1827, died Trenton,

New Jersey New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York; on the east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on the west by the Delaware ...

, December 23, 1899), was an American poet. The daughter of a calico printer, and employed as a

factory worker A factory, manufacturing plant or a production plant is an industrial facility, often a complex consisting of several buildings filled with machinery, where workers manufacture items or operate machines which process each item into another. The ...

at the age of seven, she married Joseph Howarth, in the same occupation. She lived at Trenton, New Jersey in extremely reduced circumstances until friends secured her a comfortable subsistence. She authored a volume of poems in 1864, ''The Wind-Harp and Other Poems'', and also wrote words for the son
"'Tis but a Little Faded Flower"
Her later work, ''Poems'' (1867), was edited by Richard Watson Gilder. Howarth said her poems came to her as she did housework, and she only wrote them down when she considered them finished. They were initially published in newspapers in Trenton under the pen name "Clementine", and then in magazines; Richard Gilder helped her find markets for them. She wrote many poems in a few years, and then mostly ceased writing.''New York Times'', December 24, 1899, obituary

Notes

References

Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Ellen is a female given name, a diminutive of Elizabeth, Eleanor, Elena and Helen. Ellen was the 609th most popular name in the U.S. and the 17th in Sweden in 2004. People named Ellen include: *Ellen Adarna (born 1988), Filipino actress *Ellen A ...

and

Arthur Stedman Arthur J Stedman FRIBA (1868–1958) was a British architect in the Late-Victorian era, Victorian and Edwardian periods. He was a prominent architect in and around Farnham, Surrey where he was educated, lived and died. Biography Career Art ...

,
A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present
' (1892), v. 11, p. 531. *

External links

WorldCat page on Ellen Clementine Howarth
American women poets Writers from New York (state) Writers from Trenton, New Jersey 1827 births 1899 deaths 19th-century American poets 19th-century American women writers {{US-poet-1820s-stub