Elijah Kellogg. Me. 1813-. Congregational minister. Famed for “The Address of Spartacus to the Gladiators.” Author: Elm Island series; Forest Glen series; Good Old Times series; Pleasant Cove series. Reference: Bibliog. Me.; Appleton.
Mary Elizabeth Lee. S. C. 1813–1849. Not a distinctive juvenile writer, but contributed many juvenile tales to The Rosebud. (Vide Gilman.) Reference: Hart.
Rev. Zachariah Atwell Mudge. Mass. 1813–1888. Methodist-Episcopal minister; teacher. Fiction for Sunday-schools. Author: Arctic Heroes; Fur Clad Adventurers. Reference: Appleton.
Mrs. Harriet V. Cheney. Mass. Circa 1815. Daughter of Hannah Foster, an early American novelist. Her sister, Mrs. Cushing, wrote Esther, a dramatic poem, and “works” for the young. Author: A Peep at the Pilgrims; The Sunday-school; or, Village Sketches. Reference: Appleton.
Mrs. Harriette Newell (Woods) Baker. Mass. 1815–1893. Pseud. Madeline Leslie. Wife of Rev. A. R. B. Author: About two hundred moral tales, among them Tim, the Scissors Grinder. Reference: Appleton.
Lydia Ann Emerson (Porter). Mass. 1816-. Second cousin of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Contributed mostly to the Sunday-school type of book. Author: Uncle Jerry’s Letters to Young Mothers; The Lost Will. Reference: Appleton.
Catherine Maria Trowbridge. Ct. 1818-. Author: Christian Heroism; Victory at Last; Will and Will Not; Snares and Safeguards.
Susan Warner. N. Y. 1818–1885. Pseud. Elizabeth Wetherell. Books noted for strained religious sentimentality. With her, the school of Hannah More came to an end. Author: The Wide, Wide World (1851); Queechy (1852); Say and Seal (in collaboration with her sister). Reference: Appleton.
Rev. William Makepeace Thayer. Mass. 1820–1898. Congregational minister; member of legislature. Author: Youth’s History of the Rebellion; The Bobbin Boy; The Pioneer Boy; The Printer Boy; Men Who Win; Women Who Win. Edited The Home Monthly and The Mother’s Assistant. Reference: Appleton.
William Taylor Adams. Mass. 1822–1897. Pseud. Oliver Optic. In early life ed. Student and School-Mate. In 1881, ed. Our Little Ones. Then ed. Oliver Optic’s Magazine. Author: About one hundred volumes; first one published 1853, Hatchie, the Guardian Slave. Reference: Appleton.