Hentz, Caroline Lee, 1800-1856

LC control no.	n 86087621
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Hentz, Caroline Lee, 1800-1856 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Hentz, Caroline Lee Whiting, 1800-1856 Whiting, Caroline Lee, 1800-1856
See also	Family: Hentz (Family : Hentz, Nicholas Marcellus, 1797-1856) *Browse this term in* LC Authorities
Associated country	United States
Birth date	1800-06-01
Death date	1856-02-11
Profession or occupation	Authors Educators
Found in	Hübner, J. Lesestoff für Millionen, c1986: t.p. (Caroline Lee Hentz) LC data base, 7-26-86 (hdg.: Hentz, Caroline Lee (Whiting) 1800-1856) LC manual cat. (usage: Caroline Lee Hentz) Amer. women writers, v. 2, c1980 (Caroline Lee Whiting Hentz; b. 6-1-1800; d. 2-11-1856; maiden name: Whiting) Finding aid for Hentz family papers, via UNC University Libraries, Mar. 30, 2020 (Prominent members of the Hentz family included French revolutionary Nicholas Arnould Hentz (1756-1832); his sons Nicholas Richard Hentz (1786-1850), an officer in the French Imperial Army; and Nicholas Marcellus Hentz (1797-1856), a prominent entomologist; the latter's wife, the writer Caroline Lee Whiting Hentz (1800-1856); two of Nicholas Marcellus and Caroline Hentz's children, Charles Arnould (A.) Hentz (1827-1894) and Thaddeus William Harris Hentz (1830-1878), who were both physicians; and Charles A. Hentz's son, William Booth Hentz (b. 1860). The collection includes personal, medical, financial, and legal papers, and diaries and autobiographies of members of the Hentz family of France, Alabama, and Florida) <https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/00332/> Antebellum Writers in New York and the South, via Gale literature resource center WWW site, Mar. 30, 2020 (Caroline Lee (Whiting) Hentz (1 June 1800-11 February 1856) was an educator of young ladies and a prolific author of bestselling romantic literature. Born in Lancaster, Massachusetts, Caroline was the youngest child of Revolutionary War Colonel John Whiting and his wife Orpah. On 30 September 1824 she married Nicholas Marcellus Hentz, a political refugee from France. She died of pneumonia in Marianna, Florida. After a brief tenure at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where her husband was professor of Modern Languages, the Hentzes jointly supervised several schools, the first in Covington, Kentucky. In 1832, the Hentzes opened another academy in Cincinnati; moved to Florence, Ala.)