High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Kate Harrington, born Rebecca Harrington Smith and later known as Rebecca Smith Pollard, was an American teacher, writer and poet. She was born in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania on September 20, 1831. She spent her most productive years in Iowa. She died in Ft. Madison on May 29, 1917. Her father, Prof. N.R. Smith, was a playwright and an authority on Shakespeare. She was married to New York poet and editor Oliver I. Taylor. Harrington was the anonymous author of “Emma Bartlett, or Prejudice and Fanaticism,” a fictional reply to “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” intended to expose the hypocrisy of Know-Nothingism.