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Caroline Halsted

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Caroline Halsted
Bornc. 1803
Died2 July 1848
NationalityUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Occupationwriter
Known forwriting

Caroline Amelia Halsted later Caroline Amelia Atthil (c. 1803 – 2 July 1848) was a British historian and author.

Life

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Halsted was born in 1803 or 1804 and her father was Captain John Halsted of the Royal Navy.[1]

She wrote "The Little Botanist, Or, Steps to the Attainment of Botanical Knowledge" which was published in 1835.[2] She wrote another book in 1836 concerning a child and her mother investigating household objects. In 1839 she published a well received biography of Margaret Beaufort.[1][3] In the following year she argued the importance of women to education in "The Obligations of Literature to the Mothers of England".[4]

Halsted researched the life of Richard III and argued that he been unfairly treated in her 1844 book. Historians had cast him as a bad king but he was possibly not guilty of murdering both the Duke of Clarence or the Princes in the tower.[1] Her book was published in two volumes.[5]

Halsted died in Middleham on 2 July 1848.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Mitchell, Rosemary (2004-09-23). "Halsted [married name Atthill], Caroline Amelia (1803/4–1848), historian and author". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 1 (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/54060. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ Halsted, Caroline Amelia (1835). The Little Botanist, Or, Steps to the Attainment of Botanical Knowledge. J. Harris.
  3. ^ Amelia), afterwards ATTHILL HALSTEAD (Caroline (1839). Life of Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby, mother of King Henry the Seventh.
  4. ^ Halsted, Caroline Amelia (1840). The Obligations of Literature to the Mothers of England. Smith, Elder and Company.
  5. ^ Halsted, Caroline A. (1844). Richard III.: As Duke of Gloucester and King of England. By Caroline A. Halsted. In 2 volumes. Longman.