Caroline Augusta White Soule (03 Sep 1824 – 06 Dec 1903 | Albany NY – Glasgow SCOT) poet, editor, novelist, religious writer, Universalist minister.

We have named our little volume Home-Life, or a Peep across the Threshold, because

it is a grouping of scenes that happen, and characters that have existence, every day

around the hearthstone. All houses wherein men have lived and died are haunted

houses. I will tell you a story about a haunted hearthstone; and, it will be no tale of

fiction. This hearthstone was haunted by another spirit – a spirit that had sinned,

suffered, and been forgiven. They had taken the child from the cold charities of a

public institution to the warm, beautiful folk who cluster around the hearthstone of

a home. A little hearthstone, brilliant with ingle-lights, first caught her vision. She

drew to the hearthstone a chair, placed slippers by the fire, hung a dressing gown to

air. Thoughts of other children and cold hearthstones gave her courage to carry on.

Soule, Caroline Augusta White. Home-Life, Or: A Peep across the Threshold.  Boston: A. Tompkins and B. B. Mussey & Co., 1855. https://archive.org/details/homelifeorapeep00soulgoog/page/n11/mode/1up