A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Follen, Eliza Lee
FOLLEN, ELIZA LEE,
Whose maiden-name was Cabott, was born in America. In 1828, she married Charles Follen, a native of Germany, and professor of the German language and literature in Harvard College. He was lost or perished in the conflagration of the Lexington, January 18th., 1840. Mrs. Follen is a well-known writer. Her principal works are—"Sketches of Married Life," "The Sceptic," and a "Life of Charles Follen," published in 1844. She also edited the works of her late husband, in four volumes, besides contributing to various literary periodicals, and has written a volume of Poems, which appeared in 1839. And, moreover, she has prepared several books for the young; her talents as an educator being, perhaps, more successful than in literary pursuits. Mrs. Follen, on the death of her lamented husband, was left to provide for the education of their only child, a son, of nine or ten years of age. She resolved to conduct the instruction of her son, and receiving into her home a few boys, sons of her beloved and true friends, as companions of her child and pupils of her care, she fitted these youths for Harvard University. Such honourable exertions to perform faithfully the duty of father as well as mother to her son, demand a warmer tribute of praise than the highest genius, disconnected from usefulness, can ever claim for a Christian woman.