Caroline May (born Croydon, England c. 1820; died March 5, 1895) was an English-American poet, editor, and literary critic.
May's family came to the United States in 1834 when her father, Edward Harrison May Sr., accepted a position as pastor of a Dutch Reformed church in New York City.
Several similar works were published in the same year, and a literary feud ensued between May and Rufus Griswold, the editor of Female Poets of America.
After the death of her father in Philadelphia in 1853 she lived in Pelham, New York, where she taught at the Priory School for Girls.
[2] Her younger brother Edward Harrison May Jr. was a notable painter who spent most of his life in Paris.