Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet. Sister of Elaine Goodale Eastman. Born in Mount Washington, Massachusetts. Educated at Smith College. Co-authored poetry with her younger sister from a young age, including contributions to St. Nicholas and three volumes of poetry (Apple Blossoms: Verses of Two Children [1878], In Berkshire with the Wild Flowers [1879], and All Round the Year: Verses from Sky Farm [1880]). Moved to Connecticut and became an art and English teacher, and then to Tennessee where she was a teacher and director at Uplands Sanatorium. Never married. Author of Heralds of Easter (1887) and Mountain Dooryards (1941). Biographical information: “Elaine Goodale Eastman”, ANB; “Goodale Sisters”, Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodale_Sisters (26 June 2021); Theodore D. Sargent, The Life of Elaine Goodale Eastman, University of Nebraska Press, 2005, pp. 22-23; Frances E. Willard and Mart A. Livermore, editors, A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-Seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life, Charles Wells Moulton, 1893, p. 324. (CC)