Harriet Pritchard Arnold ( Harriet Eudora Pritchard;
pen name: H.E.P.; December 24, 1858 - August 4, 1901) was a 19th-century American author.
Born in
Connecticut
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, in 1858, she removed with her parents to
Maine
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at a young age, with the greater portion of her life spent in
Portland
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* Portland, Oregon, the largest city in the state of Oregon, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States
* Portland, Maine, the largest city in the state of Maine, in the New England region of the northeas ...
and vicinity. Her poems and short sketches appeared frequently in
New England
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publications. Arnold died in 1901.
Biography
Harriet Eudora Pritchard, an only child, was born in
Killingly, Connecticut
Killingly is a New England town, town in Windham County, Connecticut, Windham County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 17,752 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. It consists of the borough of Danielson, Connecticut, Dani ...
, December 24, 1858. Her father was the Rev. Benjamin F. Pritchard, a New England clergyman of Scotch and English descent, and her mother was Celia (Handel) Pritchard. In her childhood, Arnold evinced no particular fondness for books, preferring outdoor recreations. While wandering among the wooded vales and hills near her home in a suburb of
Portland, Maine
Portland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maine and the seat of Cumberland County. Portland's population was 68,408 in April 2020. The Greater Portland metropolitan area is home to over half a million people, the 104th-largest metropo ...
, where the greater part of her life was passed, she perhaps unconsciously developed the latent poetry in her nature.
In 1882, when a lingering illness afforded her many hours of leisure, she began writing. Thereafter, her poems and sketches appeared in various magazines and periodicals under the signature H. E. P., and her maiden name, Harriet E. Pritchard.
In the year 1886, she married Ernest Warner Arnold, of
Providence, Rhode Island
Providence is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. One of the oldest cities in New England, it was founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, a Reformed Baptist theologian and religious exile from the Massachusetts ...
, and made that city her home. She two children: Ralph and Celia.
Harriet Pritchard Arnold died August 4, 1901, aged 42, and was buried at
Swan Point Cemetery
Swan Point Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Established in 1846 on a 60-acre (0.24 km2) plot of land, it has approximately 40,000 interments.
History
The cemetery was first organ ...
in Providence.
References
Attribution
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External links
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Harriet E. Pritchardat ''Pearls from Many Seas. A Galaxy of Thought from Four Hundred Writers''
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1858 births
1901 deaths
19th-century American writers
19th-century American women writers
Burials at Swan Point Cemetery
People from Killingly, Connecticut
Writers from Connecticut
Writers from Portland, Maine
Writers from Providence, Rhode Island
Wikipedia articles incorporating text from A Woman of the Century