Surname: Spofford Forename(s): Harriet Prescott b. 3 April 1835. d. 14 August 1921. Nationality: American. VIAF.
Novelist and poet. Educated at Putnam Free School and Pinkerton Academy. Contributor
to Atalanta and Atlantic Monthly. Member of Alice Fields’s Boston circle of female writers. Author of Sir Rohan’s Ghost (1860), The Amber Gods, and Other Stories (1863), and The Elder’s People (1920). Biographical information: ANB. (SCM)