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Elizabeth H. Jocelyn (Elizabeth Hannah Jocelyn) Cleaveland
1824–1911
Best remembered for the widely reprinted poem No Sect in Heaven, this 19th-century American writer used verse to explore faith, feeling, and everyday moral questions. Her work found a lasting afterlife through later editions and digital archives, where new readers still discover it.
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About the author
Elizabeth H. Jocelyn Cleaveland, also listed as Elizabeth Hannah Jocelyn Cleaveland, was an American author born in 1824 and died in 1911. Library and public-domain book records consistently connect her name with No Sect in Heaven and No Sects in Heaven: And Other Poems, a collection that helped preserve her reputation.
Her best-known writing is religious and reflective in tone. No Sect in Heaven, first published in the 1860s and later reissued, became the work most closely associated with her, and catalog records also attribute The Dark River to her.
Although detailed biographical information is limited in the sources readily available online, the surviving record suggests a writer whose poetry spoke to broad spiritual themes rather than narrow doctrine. That may help explain why her work continued to circulate in later printings and now remains accessible through major digital libraries.