Author: Horwood, Caroline
Biography:
Horwood, Caroline, later Baker (1783-1867: ancestry.com)
The daughter of Richard and Hannah (Flucker) Horwood, born in Westminster (London), she was a prolific writer of fiction and verse for both children and adults. Before her breakthrough volume of Instructive Amusement for Young Minds (1815), which was published in multiple editions with some confusingly various titles in her lifetime, she was already the author of two gothic novels and some "original moral tales" for children. She published generally as "Miss Horwood" until her marriage to William Baker in 1818: her first publication as "Mrs. Baker" was a prose work, Emily and her Cousins, in 1828. Original publications ceased about that time but her works continued to be reprinted into the 1860s. The Bakers emigrated to Ohio and had at least two sons; she died in Monroe Center OH. Not to be confused with "E. Horwood," author of Original Poetry for Little People (London: Dean and Son [1857-65?]). (ancestry.com 28 Apr. 2019; WorldCat)
Other Names:
- Miss Horwood
- Mrs. Baker