Eliza Lee Cabot Follen was an author and abolitionist.

Biography

She was the daughter of Samuel Cabot of Boston. When he died in 1819, ten years after her mother had died, she and her two sisters established a household. Catharine Sedgwick

Catharine Sedgwick

Catharine Maria Sedgwick , was an American novelist of what is now referred to as "domestic fiction". She promoted Republican motherhood.-Biography:...

 introduced her to the educator Charles Follen

Charles Follen

Charles Follen was a German poet and patriot, who later moved to the United States and became the first professor of German at Harvard University, a Unitarian minister, and a radical abolitionist.-Life in Europe:...

. Nine years her junior, he initially became Eliza Cabot's protege. In 1828, after his betrothed in Germany declined to emigrate to the United States, Eliza and Charles married.

After Charles's death in 1840, Eliza Follen educated their only son, whom, with other pupils, she fitted for Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

. She was an intimate friend of William Ellery Channing

William Ellery Channing

Dr. William Ellery Channing was the foremost Unitarian preacher in the United States in the early nineteenth century and, along with Andrews Norton, one of Unitarianism's leading theologians. He was known for his articulate and impassioned sermons and public speeches, and as a prominent thinker...

, and a zealous opponent of slavery

Slavery

Slavery is a system under which people are treated as property to be bought and sold, and are forced to work. Slaves can be held against their will from the time of their capture, purchase or birth, and deprived of the right to leave, to refuse to work, or to demand compensation...

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Works

• The Well-Spent Hour (Boston, 1827)
• Selections from the writings of Fenelon, with a memoir of his life (1829)
• The Skeptic (1835)
• Sketches of Married Life (1838)
• Poems (1839)
• The Child's friend (a periodical; editor 1843-1850)
• The works of Charles Follen, with a memoir of his life (5 vols., 1846)
• To Mothers in the Free States (1855)
• Anti-Slavery Hymns and Songs (1855)
• Twilight Stories (1858)
• Home Dramas (1859)

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