Richard Henry Stoddard's early years were rather Dickensian.
This article contains a brief obituary for Elizabeth Barstow Stoddard.
"The death of Mrs. Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard, novelist and poet, wife of the poet Richard Henry Stoddard, took from New York one of the leading spirits in the older and more distinguished literary circle of the city."
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