Stoddard, Elizabeth Drew (1823–1902)

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Stoddard, Elizabeth Drew (1823–1902)

American novelist and poet. Name variations: Elizabeth Stoddard; Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard. Born Elizabeth Drew Barstow, 1823, in Mattapoisset, MA; m. Richard Stoddard (poet); children: 3.

Wrote column for San Francisco Alta (1854–58) as "Lady Correspondent" and published short stories in Harper's; wrote novels The Morgesons (1862), Two Men (1865), and Temple House (1867) and book of children's stories, Dolly Dinks' Doings (1874).

See also Lawrence Buell and Sandra Zagarell, eds., "The Morgesons" and Other Writings, Published and Unpublished, by Elizabeth Stoddard (1984).

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