Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Holloway, Laura Carter

628999Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography — Holloway, Laura Carter

HOLLOWAY, Laura Carter, author, b. in Nashville, Tenn., 22 Aug., 1848. She was graduated at the Nashville female seminary in 1862, since that time has continually engaged in literary work, has edited the “Home Library Magazine” in Chicago, Ill., and for twelve years was associate editor of the “Brooklyn Daily Eagle.” In 1862 she married Junius B. Holloway, of Richmond, Ky. Her published works include “Ladies of the White House” (New York, 1870); “An Hour with Charlotte Bronté” (1883); “The Hearthstone, or Life at Home” (Philadelphia, 1883); “The Mothers of Great Men and Women” (New York, 1884); “The Home in Poetry” (1884); “Chinese Gordon” (1885); “Howard, the Christian Hero” (1885); “Adelaide Neilson, a Biography” (1885); and “The Buddhist Diet Book” (1887).