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Hattie Tyng Griswold
1840–1909
A prolific 19th-century writer from Wisconsin, she published poems, stories, and literary sketches while making her home a gathering place for reformers and artists. Her work blends domestic warmth with a lively interest in books, public life, and women’s voices.
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Home Life of Great Authors
by Hattie Tyng Griswold
About the author
Born in Boston in 1842 and raised from childhood in Columbus, Wisconsin, she became known as an American author and poet who wrote stories, sketches, and verse. Contemporary biographical sources identify her father as Rev. Dudley Tyng, a Universalist minister, and note that she was educated largely at home before later building her literary life in Wisconsin.
She married Eugene Sherwood Griswold in 1863, raised a family, and published a wide range of work, including Apple Blossoms, Home Life of Great Authors, Waiting on Destiny, and Personal Sketches of Recent Authors. Accounts from her own time describe her house in Columbus as a welcoming center for writers, reformers, and clubwomen.
She was also active in civic and reform circles, especially in literary clubs, suffrage work, and the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. She died in January 1909, leaving behind a body of writing that reflects both everyday life and the energetic reform culture of her era.