Two Festivals

Eliza Lee Cabot Follen (1787–1860) was an American author and abolitionist, born in Boston, Massachusetts to a prominent family. Follen's literary career was one deeply interwoven with her fervent advocacy for abolitionist causes and the moral education of the young. She married Charles Follen, a German poet and Harvard professor who shared her anti-slavery convictions, thus entrenching her engage...