Christine Terhune Herrick

Born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1859, she was the eldest daughter of writers Edward Payson Terhune and Mary Virginia Hawes Terhune, better known as Marion Harland. She was educated largely at home and also spent time in Europe in her youth, experiences that broadened her education and interests.

She married journalist James Frederick Herrick in 1884. After his death in 1893, she supported herself and her family through writing and built a successful career as an author and editor. She contributed to magazines including Good Housekeeping and Harper's Bazaar, and became especially known for clear, practical writing about housekeeping, cooking, and domestic life.

Her books include What to Eat, How to Serve It, and she is remembered as part of the growing movement that treated household management as a serious field of knowledge. Today, her work offers a window into everyday American home life at the turn of the twentieth century.