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H. N. K. (Harriet Newell Kneeland) Goff
b. 1828
A 19th-century American writer and temperance reformer, she brought social causes and everyday struggles into her fiction with energy and conviction. Her work includes novels shaped by reform movements and post-Civil War life.
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Other Fools and Their Doings, or, Life among the Freedmen
by H. N. K. (Harriet Newell Kneeland) Goff
About the author
Born on October 10, 1828, in Watertown, New York, Harriet Newell Kneeland Goff wrote under the name H. N. K. Goff. She became known both as an author and as an active voice in the temperance movement, contributing to the press for many years before publishing books of her own.
Her best-known works include Was it an Inheritance? (1876), Other Fools and Their Doings, or, Life Among the Freedmen (1880), and Who Cares (1887). Alongside her writing, she was involved in reform work and was associated with the Independent Order of Good Templars, reflecting the strong moral and social concerns that run through her career.
Goff died on April 10, 1901. Today, she is remembered as one of many 19th-century women writers whose fiction and public work were closely tied to the reform spirit of their time.