Caroline Aiken Jenkins Harris (March 27, 1847 – December 28, 1903) was an American writer and magazine editor from North Carolina.
In 1873, Harris was teaching music, drawing, and other arts, at the Wilson Collegiate Institute (a private, non-denominational school in Wilson, North Carolina, run by Sylvester Hassell[2] and was active on stage and as a painter.
She married Cicero Willis Harris on July 1, 1874, who came from a family with a long tradition in North Carolina.
His interests were more in politics and economics; in addition, his family was Whig, while hers were Democratic, and they seem to have separated by the end of the century.
[1] Harris wrote a serialized novel called Margaret Rosselyn,[1] and in November 1877 founded and began editing a magazine, the South Atlantic,[3] which published poetry (including Harris's own), political texts (including by her husband), and various other literary and historical material, such as an account of the formerly enslaved Muslim man, Omar ibn Said from Futa Toro in modern-day Senegal,[1] and work by Paul Hamilton Hayne.