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Cecilia Pauline Cleveland
1850–1901
A warm, firsthand voice brings Horace Greeley’s world in Chappaqua to life through the small, vivid details of summer days, family routines, and country-house conversation. Best known for a single memoir-like book, this 19th-century writer left a charming window onto a famous household.
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The story of a summer : or, Journal leaves from Chappaqua
by Cecilia Pauline Cleveland
About the author
Born in 1850, Cecilia Pauline Cleveland was an American writer remembered for The Story of a Summer; or, Journal Leaves from Chappaqua. The book grew out of personal notes and offers an intimate picture of life at Chappaqua, the country home closely associated with her uncle, the newspaper editor and public figure Horace Greeley.
What makes her writing appealing is its nearness to ordinary life. Instead of grand speeches or heavy moralizing, she records household scenes, local color, and family feeling in a way that feels immediate and human, giving modern readers a lively glimpse of post–Civil War domestic life.
Cleveland died in 1901. Though little biographical information is easy to confirm today, her surviving work continues to attract readers interested in memoir, 19th-century America, and the private side of a well-known historical family.