Family Child
Julia Louisa Hentz Keyes
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Caroline Lee Hentz
1800-06-01 – 1856-02-11
Life & Legacy
Caroline Lee Whiting Hentz (June 1, 1800 – February 11, 1856) was an American novelist. She is 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).
Occupation & Career
novelist, writer, teacher
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Family Spouse
Nicholas Marcellus Hentz
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