The Biographical Dictionary of America/Skinner, Henrietta Channing Dana

SKINNER, Henrietta Channing Dana, author, was born in Cambridge, Mass., youngest daughter of Richard Henry, Jr. (q.v.) and Sarah (Watson) Dana. She attended private schools in Boston and Paris; was a special student at Radcliffe college, Cambridge, for two years, 1886–87; and began to contribute articles to Scribner's and other magazines as early as 1878. She was married, June 25, 1892, to Henry Whipple Skinner of Detroit, Mich., where she subsequently made her home. She is the author of: Espiritu Santo, a novel (1899); Heart and Soul, a novel: (1901), and contributions to the Atlantic Monthly, the Catholic World, and Harper's Magazine.