Josephine E. Keating
Josephine E. Keating was an American literary critic, musician and music teacher of the long nineteenth century. Early in her career, she was successful in the music field where she sang for charitable and patriotic purposes and taught music, vocal, piano, harp and guitar. Later, she turned to literature, becoming a discerning and discriminating critic.
Josephine Esselman Smith was born in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1838. She was educated in the Atheneum in Columbia. From that institution, she was graduated with distinction in vocal and instrumental music. She was first in all her other classes, also studying modern French and English literature.
Career
At the beginning of her career, she gave much attention to music and its history and to that of the persons most distinguished as executants or professors of it.
Personal life
In 1856, she married Col. John McLeod Keating, a Memphis journalist. There were two children, a son and a daughter. She died November 8, 1908, in Memphis, Tennessee.