Family of Authors
Carpenter married Mary Seymour of New York in 1890. Carpenter's daughter Margaret Seymour Carpenter (Margaret Carpenter Richardson) (b. 3 April 1893 - d. 1973) was herself the author of several short stories and the novel Experiment Perilous, Little Brown & Co., Boston. (1943). George Rice Carpenter's publications were copious. A large number of textbooks were from his hand. Carpenter produced works on Longfellow (1901), Whittier (1903), Whitman (1909), among others listed in the next sections.
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