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Caroline Austin

A little-known 19th-century American writer, best remembered for the domestic novel Marie's Home: Or, A Glimpse of the Past. Very little biographical information appears to be readily available online, which gives her work an unusual sense of rediscovery.

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Unlucky: A Fragment of a Girl's Life

Unlucky: A Fragment of a Girl's Life

by Caroline Austin

About the author

Caroline Austin is an obscure author whose surviving online record is very slim. The clearest trace located during this search is bibliographic evidence for Marie's Home: Or, A Glimpse of the Past, which is associated with her name and points to her as a historical, likely 19th-century writer.

Because reliable biographical sources are scarce, it is hard to confirm details such as her birth and death dates, background, or wider body of work with confidence. For readers, that rarity can be part of the appeal: Austin's writing comes down to us with the quiet mystery of a forgotten author waiting to be rediscovered.