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Carl Holliday
1879–1936
A lively early-20th-century writer and teacher, best remembered for bringing colonial American life and literature to general readers. His books mix scholarship with storytelling, making history feel close and human.
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Woman's Life in Colonial Days
by Carl Holliday
About the author
Born on March 2, 1879, Carl Holliday was an American author, poet, and teacher whose work often centered on English literature, Southern writing, and everyday life in early America. He studied at the University of Tennessee and later did postgraduate work at the University of Chicago and the University of Virginia.
Holliday taught English at several schools and colleges, including posts in Alabama, Virginia, Georgia, and Tennessee. Alongside his academic career, he wrote widely in both literary criticism and popular history. His books include The Cotton-Picker, and Other Poems, English Fiction from the Fifth to the Twentieth Century, The Wit and Humor of Colonial Days, and Woman's Life in Colonial Days.
He died on August 16, 1936. Today, he is chiefly remembered for writing books that opened literary and historical subjects to ordinary readers in a clear, accessible way.