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(1815-1864) Novelist. Eliza Farnham was born in Rensselaerville, New York, and died in New York City.

Full Name

Eliza Farnham

Locations

Albany

Author's Timeline


1815

BIRTH

Eliza Farnham was born Eliza Woodson Burhans in Rensselaerville, New York, on November 17, 1815.

1844

OTHER

Ms. Farnham was matron of the women's ward at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York from 1844 until 1848.

1846

LITWORK

Life In Prairie Land
Harper & Bros

Nonfiction.

1856

LITWORK

California, In-doors and Out
Dix, Edwards & Company

Nonfiction.

1859

LITWORK

My Early Days


Autobiographical novel.

1864

DEATH

Eliza Farnham died in New York city on December 15, 1864.

1864

LITWORK

Woman and Her Era
New York: A. J. Davis & Company

Nonfiction.

1865

LITWORK

The Ideal Attained


Fiction.

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