Christine Terhune Herrick (June 13, 1859 – December 2, 1944) was an American author who wrote mostly about housekeeping

Housekeeping

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. She published many articles in Harper's Bazaar

Harper's Bazaar

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 and was also a journalist.

Biography

Herrick was born in Newark, New Jersey

Newark, New Jersey

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 on June 13, 1859. She was the eldest daughter of the writers Edward Payson Terhune

Edward Payson Terhune

Edward Payson Terhune was an American theologian and author.-Biography:He was born on November 22, 1830 in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He graduated from Rutgers University in 1850. He then studied theology at the New Brunswick Theological Seminary...

 and Mary Virginia Hawes Terhune. She married James Frederick Herrick (1851-1893), an editor of the Springfield Republican, in 1884. She published her first article in the very first issue of Good Housekeeping

Good Housekeeping

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 in 1885. Her husband died in 1893 of typhoid fever

Typhoid fever

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, but she was able to support herself and her two young sons through her writing.

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

Publications

• 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)
• 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)
• 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)