Christine Terhune Herrick

Herrick was born in Newark, New Jersey on June 13, 1859. She was the eldest daughter of the writers Edward Payson Terhune and Mary Virginia Hawes Terhune.^[8]

She married James Frederick Herrick (1851–1893),^[9] an editor of the Springfield Republican, in 1884.^[1] They had three children; Horace Terhune Herrick (1887–1948),^[10] James Frederic Herrick, and a toddler daughter who died at age 3.^[1]

She published her first article in the first issue of Good Housekeeping in 1885.^[1] Her husband died in 1893 of typhoid fever,^[9] but she was able to support herself and her two young sons through her writing.^[1]

Around 1890, she built a home in Pompton Lakes, New Jersey she called The Outlook, where she resided for 13 years.^[11]

She died on December 2, 1944, in Washington, D.C.^[12][13]

She wrote over thirty books on housekeeping, childcare and cooking. Herrick also published magazine articles and wrote a book with her mother.^[14][15]

• Housekeeping Made Easy (Harpers, 1888)
• Cradle and Nursery (Harpers, 1889)
• Liberal Living Upon Narrow Means (Houghton, Mifflin, 1890)
• What to Eat, How to Serve It (Harpers, 1891)
• The Little Dinner (Scribners, 1892)
• Chafing – Dish Suppers (Scribners, 1894)
• The Cottage Kitchen (Scribners, 1895)
• The National Cook Book (Scribners, 1896)
• The Home Book for Mothers and Daughters (Christian Herald, 1897)
• The New Idea Home and Cook Book (Blanchard, 1900)
• First Aid to the Young Housekeeper (Scribners, 1900)
• In City Tents (Putnam, 1902)
• Hospitality at Small Expense (Clode, 1904)
• The Expert Maid – Servant (Harpers, 1904)^[16][17]
• The Consolidated Library of Modern Cooking and Household Recipes (Bodmer, 1904)
• The Lewis Carroll Birthday Book (Wessels, 1905)
• Sunday Night Suppers (Estes, 1907)
• The Cooking School (Anderson & Stoner, 1908)
• Like Mother Used to Make (Estes, 1912)
• The Helping Hand Cook Book (Moffat, Yard, 1912)
• My Boy and I (Estes, 1913)^[18]
• Candy Making (Rand, McNally, 1913)
• Candy Making in the Home (Rand McNally, 1914)
• The ABC of Housekeeping (Harpers, 1915)
• The ABC of Cooking (Harpers, 1916)
• Lose Weight and Be Well (Harpers, 1917)
• Letters of the Duke of Wellington to Miss J (Unwin, 1924)
• Feed The Brute (Stokes, 1926)
• The New Common Sense in the Household (Stokes, 1926)
• Smart Supper Recipes (Page, 1928)