Mary Louise Peebles

Mary Louise Peebles
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Mary Louise Peebles
Born December 10, 1833(1833-12-10)
Lansingburgh, New York, U.S.A.
Died April 25, 1915(1915-04-25) (aged 81)
Lansingburgh, New York, U.S.A.
Occupation Author of children's books


Mary Louise Peebles, née Parmelee (1833–1915), was an American author of children’s stories who wrote under the name Mrs. A. Lynde Palmer.[1]



From Helps over Hard Places:1862

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Early life

Mary Louise Peebles was the daughter of Elias Ripley Parmelee and Eleanor Allen, descendants of early settlers of the town of Lansingburgh (now part of Troy), New York.[2] Peebles was born at Lansingburgh on December 10, 1833[3] and completed her education there seventeen years later at the Lansingburgh Academy.[4] She married banker Anthony Augustus Peebles (1822–1905)[5] on July 7, 1862, and eventually became the mother of two sons who did not survive infancy.[6] Her aunt, Mary Eleanor Parmelee, was known for being an early love interest of the writer Herman Melville before she chose to marry instead a local merchant.[7]

Writing career

Mary Louise Peebles' book ,The Little Captain, published around 1861, was the first of a number of children's stories she would author over the following twenty years or so. In 1877 she released The Magnet Stories[8] a collection of children's yarns that included Drifting and Steering, One Day’s Weaving, Archie’s Shadow and John Jack.

Death

Mary Louise Peebles died on April 25, 1915, a lifelong resident of Lansingburgh, New York.[9]

Bibliography

From Drifting and Steering 1870


  1. The Little Captain
  2. The Good Fight
  3. Stories for Boys
  4. Stories for Girls
  5. The Honorable Club
  6. Helps Over Hard Places
  7. Drifting and Steering
  8. One Day’s Weaving
  9. Archie’s Shadow
  10. John Jack
  11. Jeanette’s Cisterns
  12. Twinkle and Winkle
  13. Two Blizzards
  14. A Question of Honor, Where Honor Leads (for adults)


References

  1. ^ The New York Times April 26, 1915
  2. ^ Hudson-Mohawk genealogical and family memoirs: a record of achievements of edited by Cuyler Reynolds
  3. ^ Hudson-Mohawk genealogical and family memoirs: a record of achievements of edited by Cuyler Reynolds
  4. ^ famousamericans.net
  5. ^ NY Tate Libray (Van Schaick -Peebles Papers
  6. ^ Hudson-Mohawk genealogical and family memoirs: a record of achievements of edited by Cuyler Reynolds
  7. ^ Melville: a biography By Laurie Robertson-Lorant
  8. ^ A critical dictionary of English literature and British and Americans Authors.(1897)
  9. ^ The New York Times April 26, 1915

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