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H. N. K. (Harriet Newell Kneeland) Goff
b. 1828
A 19th-century American writer and temperance reformer, she brought her activism into her fiction and nonfiction. Writing as H. N. K. Goff, she is remembered for books that engaged with social issues of her day.
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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
Harriet Newell Kneeland Goff (October 10, 1828 – April 10, 1901) was an American author and temperance reformer. Born in Watertown, New York, she wrote under the pen name H. N. K. Goff and contributed to newspapers and magazines for many years.
Her best-known books include Was it an Inheritance? (1876), Other Fools and Their Doings, or, Life Among the Freedmen (1880), and Who Cares (1887). Her writing reflects the moral and social concerns that also shaped her public work.
Goff was active in the temperance movement and held leadership roles in that cause, making her part of the broad network of 19th-century women who used both print and public service to influence reform.