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Cecilia Pauline Cleveland

1850–1901

A nineteenth-century memoirist with a close family link to Horace Greeley, she left behind a warm, observant portrait of summer life in Chappaqua. Her surviving work offers a small but vivid window into domestic life, conversation, and memory in post–Civil War America.

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The story of a summer : $b or, Journal leaves from Chappaqua

The story of a summer : $b or, Journal leaves from Chappaqua

by Cecilia Pauline Cleveland

About the author

Born in 1850 and dying in 1901, Cecilia Pauline Cleveland is best known for The Story of a Summer; or, Journal Leaves from Chappaqua, first published in 1874. Project Gutenberg and major library records identify her as the author of that book, which preserves her account of a summer spent in Chappaqua, New York.

Available catalog and book-history sources consistently connect the book to the Greeley family, and several descriptions identify her as a niece of Horace Greeley. That family connection helps explain the book's lasting interest: rather than offering a formal biography, it gives readers an intimate, everyday view of a well-known American household.

Very little biographical information about her appears to be widely documented online beyond those basic facts. Even so, her writing remains appealing for its personal tone and period detail, especially for readers interested in nineteenth-century memoir, family history, and the social world surrounding Horace Greeley.