Harriet Pritchard Arnold

Harriet Eudora Pritchard, an only child, was born in Killingly, Connecticut, December 24, 1858.^[2] Her father was the Rev. Benjamin F. Pritchard, a New England clergyman of Scotch and English descent, and her mother was Celia (Handel) Pritchard. In her childhood, Arnold evinced no particular fondness for books, preferring outdoor recreations. While wandering among the wooded vales and hills near her home in a suburb of Portland, Maine, where the greater part of her life was passed, she perhaps unconsciously developed the latent poetry in her nature.^[3]

In 1882, while recuperating from a lingering illness, she began writing. Thereafter, her poems and sketches appeared in various magazines and periodicals under the signature "H. E. P.", and her maiden name, "Harriet E. Pritchard".^[3]

In the year 1886, she married Ernest Warner Arnold, of Providence, Rhode Island, and made that city her home. She two children: Ralph and Celia.^[3][4]

Harriet Pritchard Arnold died August 4, 1901, aged 42, and was buried at Swan Point Cemetery in Providence.^[4]

• This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Griffith, George Bancroft (1888). The poets of Maine: a collection of specimen poems from over four hundred verse-makers of the Pine-Tree State: with biographical sketches (Public domain ed.). Elwell, Pickard & Company.
• This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Herringshaw, Thomas William (1904). Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century: Accurate and Succinct Biographies of Famous Men and Women in All Walks of Life who are Or Have Been the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States Since Its Formation ... (Public domain ed.). American Publishers' Association.
• This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life (Public domain ed.). Moulton. p. 32.

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