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Mary Gardiner Horsford
1824–1855
An American poet whose life was brief, but whose work and story still invite curiosity. Educated in New York and remembered in part through her connection to chemist Eben Norton Horsford, she belonged to a literary world of the mid-19th century.
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Indian Legends and Other Poems
by Mary Gardiner Horsford
About the author
Born Mary L'Hommedieu Gardiner in New York on September 26, 1824, she was educated at the Albany Academy for Girls and later became known as Mary Gardiner Horsford after her marriage to chemist Eben Norton Horsford in 1847.
She is identified in reliable reference sources as an American poet. Although not widely known today, her life places her in the cultural world of 19th-century America, where literary activity often overlapped with family, education, and public intellectual life.
Horsford died on November 25, 1855, at just 31 years old. The surviving biographical record is fairly brief, which makes her one of those writers whose name lingers at the edges of literary history—interesting precisely because so much of her life and work now has to be pieced together from scattered references.