Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Coburn, Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
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Other form(s) of name
- Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell
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Description area
Dates of existence
1872-1958
History
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott Coburn was an American author and frequent contributor to Ladies Home Journal. Abbott was born in Cambridge Massachusetts and grew up in the company of famous authors such as Longfellow. She attended Radcliffe College and worked as a teacher while she began to write poetry and short stories. Her work was picked up by Harper's Magazine and she eventually published seventy five short stories and fourteen novels.
Abbott married Dr. Fordyce Coburn in 1908 and the two moved to New Hampshire. She and Dr. Coburn lived in New England until her death in 1958.