Caroline Lathrop Post

{{short description|American poet}}

{{Infobox writer

| name = Caroline Lathrop Post

| image = CAROLINE LATHROP POST A woman of the century (page 594 crop).jpg

| birth_date = {{birth date|1824|11|27}}

| birth_place = Ashford, Connecticut, US

| death_date = {{death date and age|1915|05|03|1824|11|27}}

| death_place = Springfield, Illinois, US

| occupation = Poet

| children = C. W. Post

}}

Caroline Lathrop Post (November 27, 1824 – May 3, 1915) was an American poet. Born Caroline Lathrop in Ashford, Connecticut, her youth included residencies in Hartford and Pittsfield, Massachusetts. She married businessman Charles Rollin Post on October 10, 1853 and moved to Springfield, Illinois. She had been writing poems since childhood. Starting in 1846, her verse appeared in popular magazines of the era, including Sunday Magazine, Advance, Golden Rule, Life and Light, and Floral World. She had three sons: Charles William Post (founder of Post Consumer Brands), Aurelian Atwater Post, and Carroll Lathrop Post. A compilation of her poems was published in 1909 under the title Aunt Carrie's Poems.{{Cite book |last1=Willard |first1=Frances E. |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008620844 |title=American Women: Fifteen Hundred Biographies with Over 1,400 Portraits; A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of the Lives and Achievements of American Women during the Nineteenth Century |last2=Livermore |first2=Mary A. |publisher=Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick |year=1897 |volume=2 |location=New York |pages=584 |language=en |via=HathiTrust}}{{Cite book |last=Puckett |first=Linda |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sW9tNzHdGk4C&pg=PA14 |title=Post |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |year=2013 |isbn=978-0-7385-9630-3 |location=Charleston, SC |pages=14 |language=en |via=Google Books}}{{Cite journal |last=Smith |first=Eva Munson |date=1892 |title=Caroline Lathrop Post |url=https://archive.org/details/magazinepoetrya05unkngoog/page/206 |journal=The Magazine of Poetry: A Quarterly Review |volume=4 |pages=207 |via=Internet Archive}}