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"Berties Home" from Harriette Newell Woods Baker. Prolific American author of books for children (1815-1893).
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Harriette Newell (nee) Woods Baker (1815-1893) was a prolific American author of books for children. Harriette Newell Woods was born in Andover, Massachusetts. She began writing at an early age and had her first story published at age 10. Baker attended Abbot Female Seminary. She married Abijah Richardson Baker in 1835. Baker's first books were published in 1860 under the pseudonym Mrs. Madeline Leslie. It is believed that she went on to write anonymously or pseudonomously over 200 books. One of her other common pseudonym was Aunt Hattie. Many of her books had a religious or moral theme and her style was considered very true to life, with well drawn characters. She died in New York in 1893. Her works include: Cora and the Doctor (1855), The First and the Second Marriages (1856), The Household Angel in Disguise (1857), The Two Homes; or, Earning and Spending (1862), The Lost Kitty (1867), Bertie's Home; or, The Way to be Happy (1868), Juliette; or, Now and Forever (1869), Behind the Curtain; or, Leelinau (1869), The Breach of Trust (1869) and Art and Artlessness (1875).
"With an illustrated half-title. By Harriette Newell Woods Baker, who used the pseudonym "Madeline Leslie." Dedicated to "my son William, who is just entering on the duties of life." Copyright 1863 by A.R. Baker. "Electrotyped by W.F. Draper, Andover, Mass."--Verso of title page. "The Leslie stories"--series title, transposed from head of title page."
Madeline Leslie is the pen name for Harriette Newell Woods Baker, a prolific author of children's books. Some of her works include the Little Frankie series and the Robin Redbreast Series.
"Why, Minnie," said Mrs. Lee, one morning a few weeks later, "here is a story very much like that of our pony and lamb. If Poll will stop chattering, I will read it to you."In December, 1825, Thomas Rae, a blacksmith in Hardhills, purchased a beautiful lamb, of the black-faced breed, from an individual passing with a large flock.(cover photograph courtesy of Patrick Strijards)
"Minnie's Pet Lamb" from Harriette Newell Woods Baker. Prolific American author of books for children (1815-1893).
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