Cooke, Rose Terry (1827–1892)

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Cooke, Rose Terry (1827–1892)

American author. Born Rose Terry in West Hartford, Connecticut, on February 17, 1827; died in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, on July 18, 1892; married Rollin H. Cooke, in 1873.

Though Rose Cooke's first published work was a volume of Poems (1860), she was best known for her fresh and humorous stories, which dealt primarily with New England country life: Happy Dodd (1878), Somebody's Neighbors (1881), Rootbound (1885), The Sphinx's Children (1886), Steadfast (1889) and Huckleberries (1891).

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