Fannie Ostrander Explained
| Fannie Ostrander |
| Birth Date: | 1859 |
| Birth Place: | North Haven, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Death Date: | November 10, |
| Occupation: | Novelist |
| Nationality: | American |
Fannie Eliza Ostrander (1859[1] - 1921[2]) was an American writer.
Born in North Haven, Connecticut, Ostrander was a graduate of the Wisconsin State Normal School;[3] she also had private instruction. She taught school for four and a half years, and became a critic, editor, and writer for a publishing house in Chicago in 1899. She wrote a series of magazine articles titled "New Lines of Thought", and wrote both prose and verse for a number of magazines. She wrote a number of novels and books for children as well. Later in life she lived in New Haven, Connecticut.[4]
Partial works list
- When Hearts are True, 1897
- Beautiful Bible Stories, 1899
- Baby Goose, His Adventures, 1900
- Frolics of the A.B.C., 1901
- The Gift of the Magic Staff, 1902
- Animals At the Zoo, [1902]
- Little Pixies Abroad, 1905
- Goose Family Tales, 1905
- Little White Indians, 1907
- The Boy Who Won
– derived from [4]
Notes and References
- Web site: United States Census, 1910 . FamilySearch . 16 March 2019.
- Web site: Beautiful Bible stories: gems from the Holy Book reset for children . Worldcat.org . 2017-01-13.
- Book: Albert Nelson Marquis. Who's who in New England: A Biographical Dictionary of Leading Living Men and Women of the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. 1915. A.N. Marquis & Company. 807–.
- Book: Men and Women of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries. 1909. L.R. Hamersly. 1275–.
