Corinna Brown Aldrich

Keith Huneycutt (Florida Southern College)

Ed. by Nick Selby, University of East Anglia
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.2: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Nineteenth Century, 1783-1900.
Vol. editors: J. Michael Duvall (College of Charleston), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Tony Papanikolas (San Jose State University)

Dates

Born 1812
Died 1854
Activity 1840-1850

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Born in United States
Active in United States

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Letter-writer/ Diarist

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Brown Aldrich's Works

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Daughters of Captain Elihu Brown and Elizabeth Dearing Brown, Corinna Brown (1812–1854) and Ellen Brown (1814 -1862) were born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Captain Brown, a successful privateer against the British during the War of 1812, died in a Spanish prison in 1819. After Mrs. Brown died in 1832, several family members, including Corinna and Ellen, migrated to territorial Florida in 1835. Corinna married army surgeon Dr. Edward Aldrich in 1837; Ellen married army officer Lt. James Anderson in 1840. The sisters lived together or near each other in various places throughout frontier Florida until moving to New York City in 1850. James Anderson died in the Mexican War in 1847, and Edward Aldrich moved to California in 1850.

The Brown sisters aspired to literary careers. In 1834, they

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Citation: Huneycutt, Keith. "Corinna Brown Aldrich". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 05 June 2009 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=12289, accessed 21 November 2024.]