Caroline Lee HentzCaroline Lee Whiting Hentz was an American novelist and author most known for her defense of slavery and hostility to the abolitionist movement. Her well acclaimed The Planter's Northern Bride (1854) was one of the genre's anti-Tom novels, which werewritten in response to Harriet Beecher Stowe's popular anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). Caroline Hentz was born Caroline Lee Whiting to Colonel John and Orpah Whiting on June 1, 1800, in Lancaster, Massachusetts. The youngest among eight children, Her father was a Continental Army soldier in the American Revolutionary War, while three of her brothers participated in the War of 1812.Whiting attended Jared Sparks' private school when she was a child. Caroline and Nicholas Marcellus Hentz were married on September 30, 1824. Shortly after, the pair relocated to Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with their first child, where her husband was appointed chair of modern languages at the University of North Carolina. She is referred to as "a northerner who traveled and worked throughout the South for nearly thirty years." She lived in seven different places during her life, had five children, and supported her family financially through her writing. Read More Read Less