Drinkwater, Jennie M. (1841–1900)
Drinkwater, Jennie M. (1841–1900)
American author. Name variations: Jennie Conklin; Jennie Maria Drinkwater Conklin. Born Jennie Maria Drinkwater, April 12, 1841, in Yarmouth, Maine; died April 28, 1900; m. Rev. Nathaniel Conklin, 1880.
Popular writer for young readers, published such works as Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline (1879), Electa (1881), Marigold (1889) and Looking Seaward (1893); originated the Shut-In Society (1874), which was incorporated in NY (1885).
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