Caroline Lee Hentz
Caroline Lee Whiting Hentz 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).
Love After Marriage; and Other Stories of the Heart
When a woman meets her ill fiancé for the first time, their arranged union faces immediate turmoil as they both privately question their future together.
By Caroline Lee Hentz
Ernest Linwood; or, The Inner Life of the Author
When a young poet is publicly shamed, she must face expectations around identity, all while grieving her mother's illness.
By Caroline Lee Hentz
Helen and Arthur; or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel
In the 19th-century South, a young girl's imagination runs wild as she listens to scary stories and confronts the realities of life and death.
By Caroline Lee Hentz