Caroline Lee Whiting | |
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Born | June 1, 1800 |
Died | February 11, 1856 Marianna, Florida U.S. | (aged 55)
Nationality | American |
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Notable work | De Lara; or, The Moorish Bride |
Spouse | Nicholas Marcellus Hentz (married September 30, 1824) |
Children | Marcellus Fabius (1825–1827) Charles Arnould (1827–1894) Julia Louisa (1829–1877) Thaddeus William Harris(1830–1878) Caroline Therese (1833–1904) |
Caroline Lee Whiting Hentz (June 1, 1800, Lancaster, Massachusetts – February 11, 1856, Marianna, Florida) was an American novelist, most noted for her defenses of slavery and opposition to the abolitionist movement. Her widely read The Planter's Northern Bride (1854) was one of the genre known as anti-Tom novels, by which writers responded to Harriet Beecher Stowe's bestselling anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852).