Harriet Pritchard Arnold

Harriet Pritchard Arnold (pen name, H. E. P.; December 24, 1858 - August 4, 1901) was an American author. Born in Connecticut, in 1858, she removed with her parents to Maine at a young age, with the greater portion of her life spent in Portland and vicinity. Her poems and short sketches appeared frequently in New England publications.[1]

Harriet Pritchard Arnold
A woman of the century
BornHarriet Eudora Pritchard
December 24, 1858
Killingly, Connecticut, U.S.
DiedAugust 4, 1901(1901-08-04) (aged 42)
Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.
Resting placeSwan Point Cemetery, Providence, Rhode Island
Pen nameH. E. P.
Occupationauthor
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
Spouse
Ernest Warner Arnold (m. 1886)

Early years

Harriet Eudora Pritchard, an only child, was born in Killingly, Connecticut, December 24, 1858.[2] 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, where the greater part of her life was passed, she perhaps unconsciously developed the latent poetry in her nature.[3]

Career

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.[3]

Personal life

In the year 1886, she married Ernest Warner Arnold, of Providence, Rhode Island, and made that city her home. She had at least two children, a son and daughter.[3] She died in 1901 and was buried at Swan Point Cemetery in Providence.

References
  1. Griffith 1888, p. 819.
  2. Herringshaw 1904, p. 52.
  3. Willard & Livermore 1893, p. 32.

Attribution
  • This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Griffith, George Bancroft (1888). The poets of Maine: a collection of specimen poems from over four hundred verse-makers of the Pine-Tree State: with biographical sketches (Public domain ed.). Elwell, Pickard & Company.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herringshaw, Thomas William (1904). Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century: Accurate and Succinct Biographies of Famous Men and Women in All Walks of Life who are Or Have Been the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States Since Its Formation ... (Public domain ed.). American Publishers' Association.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life (Public domain ed.). Moulton. p. 32.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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