Love After Marriage; and Other Stories of the Heart

Caroline Lee Hentz

Caroline Lee Whiting Hentz was an American novelist. She is most noted for her defenses of slavery and opposition to the abolitionist movement. Her widely read The Planter's Northern Bride (1854) was one of the genre known as anti-Tom novels, by which writers responded to Harriet Beecher Stowe's bestselling anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852).