This contains a transcription of the Caroline Leslie Field of Alstead, NH biography from Biographical Review Volume XXIII: Containing Life Sketches of Leading Citizens of Cheshire and Hillsboro Counties, New Hampshire, Biographical Review Publishing Company, Boston, 1897.
Pages 55-56
CAROLINE LESLIE FIELD, an esteemed summer resident of Alstead, and daughter of
Seth D. and the noted authoress,
Adeline D. T. Whitney, was born in Milton, Mass. At one time her father conducted a large shoe and leather business in Fulton Street, Boston, but retired when Mrs. Field was quite young. Her mother, who was born in Boston, September 15, 1824, was educated at Mr.
George B. Emerson’s private school in that city and at Miss Dwight’s Boarding-school at Northampton. She neither wrote nor published before her marriage. Her first book was “Mother Goose for Grown Folks.” This was followed by “Boys at Chequasset,” “Faith Gartney’s Girlhood,” “Gayworthys,” “Leslie Goldthwaite,” “Hitherto,” “Patience Strong,” “We Girls,” “Real Folks,” “Other Girls,” “Pansies,” “Sights and Insights,” “Odd or Even,” “Cook Book,” “Bonnyborough,” “Homespun Yarns,” “Ascutney Street,” “Holy Tides,” “Golden Gossip,” “White Memories,” “Friendly Letters to Girls,” “Open Mystery,” and many short sketches and articles. Mrs. Whitney is a constant contributor to many of the best periodicals of the country. Her gifted pen, which has carried instruction and amusement to thousands of readers, has made her name a household word.
Mrs. Field inherits much of her mother’s gift, and has already written a number of books, including “High Lights,” “Poems,” “Unseen King,” besides many short stories and poems. Mrs. Field has three sons: William L. W., a student in Harvard University; James Alfred, at Milton Academy, Milton, Mass.; and Douglas Grahame, who is also a student of Milton Academy. Mrs. Field and her mother first became interested in Alstead in 1871, when they boarded during the summer with Mrs. Emily Barnard Gibson, a very energetic woman, who sent her boys to college, and kept them there by her own efforts. Alstead may well feel gratified at having so distinguished a resident. Mrs. Whitney was so attached to Hillsboro that she desired a summer home here, and the family now make this their summer residence.
