[3] In 1840, Miss Gilman married John Wilson Glover (1823–1846),[4][a] a South Carolina planter, and was left a widow in 1846, with three children, one son and two daughters.
She returned to her father's house, and immediately began to teach, and for fifteen years carried on a successful school in Charleston.
[3] While engaged in teaching, she wrote papers for magazines, also poems, over the signature of "Caroline Howard"; and her novel, Vernon Grove; or, Hearts as they Are, which appeared serially in the Southern Literary Messenger, and was afterward published by Rudd & Carleton, New York City, passing through several editions, and warmly received by the critics.
[3] About 1870, Jervey was in ill health, which prohibited any literary work, including letter writing.
Her novel, Helen Courtenay's Promise, (published by George W. Carleton, New York, 1866,) was prepared for the press by dictation of an hour a day to one of her daughters.