Early Work

Author: Sarah Knowles Bolton

Sarah Knowles Bolton, born in Farmington, Con., 15th September, 1841.At the age of seventeen she became a member of the family of her uncle, Colonel H. L. Miller, a lawyer of Hartford, whose extensive library was a delight, and whose house was a center for those who loved scholarship and refinement. The aunt was a person of wide reading, exquisite taste and social prominence. There the young girl met Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lydia H. Sigourney, and others like them, whose lies to her were a constant inspiration. She became an excellent scholar and graduated from the seminary founded by Catherine Beecher. Her first published poem appeard in the "Waferly Magazine," when she was fifteen years old. Soon after graduation she published a small volu… Go to person page >