Caroline Chesebro

Caroline Chesebro’ was a novelist, storyteller, and teacher, who was one of the female writers of the genre of domestic fiction during the 19th century. Her real name is Chesebro’ is her pen name, and her real name is Caroline Chesebrough. Born in Canandaigua, Ontario County, in New York, she was raised by her mother, Betsey Kimball Chesebrough and father, Nicholas G. Chesebrough. Her relationships with her parents and her seven other siblings are not clear- there are not much information that could be found. The only information available about her father, was that he was one of the men who abducted William Morgan, a man who intended to publish a book exposing the secrets about Freemasons, in 1826. Going back to Caroline Chesebrough- she was raised in the same place as her birth place, and attended Canandaigua Seminary, a women’s academy for her education. Again, there are limited information about her early life, education, and her relationships with her family members. Several things are clear, though; she started writing novels and short stories when she was 23 years old, and published them in magazines and daily newspapers. She was certainly one of the main figures contributing to the genre of domestic fiction, having written numerous novels and short stories throughout her life that focused on women and social, domestic problems. Some of her most famous works are Isa: A pilgrimage, In Honor Bound, Peter Carradine, and some others. The readers’ reactions to her novel were favorable and they liked it, but overall Chesebrough was not so popular. She did not gain as much widespread attention like other authors like Harriet Beecher Stowe. Some literary critics thought her plots as over emotional and slow. After her death in 1873, she was forgotten, and after almost 20 years after her death, all her books were out of print. Chesebrough’s works were very unlike other domestic fiction writers in a unique way. In one of her short stories, ”In Honor Bound”, the