She also edited one of America's first juvenile magazines, the
Little Pilgrim. The children's stories and sketches that she wrote for the magazine were collected annually and published as gift books.
Grace Greenwood was born Sara Jane Clarke on 23 September 1823 in Pompey, New York. She was the youngest daughter of the eleven children of Thaddeus and Deborah Baker Clarke, with Puritan and New England Huguenot roots. She was the great-granddaughter of the New England theologian Jonathan Edwards. Her father was a successful physician, whose ill health forced him to an early retirement. Her mother, who was educated in the English classics, helped stimulate Sara's literary interest by reading to her.
In Recollections of My Childhood, and Other Stories (1852) Greenwood describes a secure and carefree childhood. A lover of nature, she played in woods and streams, rode her horse bareback (liking best to stand on the horse's back at full gallop), and "chased after rainbows. "During her childhood, her family moved to Fabius, and then to Rochester, where she attended school for eight years.
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