“The loss of a mother is never made up or atoned for; and ours was such a mother.”
About Elizabeth Prentiss
26 October 1818–13 August 1878
Elizabeth Prentiss, born Elizabeth Payson on 26 October 1818 in Portland, Maine, and dead on 13 August 1878 in Dorset, Vermont, belonged to that important company of nineteenth-century American women whose literary influence was felt most deeply in homes, churches, and private devotional reading rather than in the…