Ella Farman

Eliza Anna Farman Pratt (pen names, Ella Farman and Dorothea Alice Shepherd; 1837–1907)[1] was an American writer of children's literature.

Eliza Anna Farman was living on a Battle Creek, Michigan farm with Emma L. Shaw,[2] writing books for girls, when Daniel Lothrop invited her to Boston to become the editor of Wide Awake, from 1875 until December, 1891.[3] For years, she continued its editor, being assisted during the latter part of the time by her husband, Charles Stuart Pratt, who attended to the art side while she had exclusive control of its literary department. She left Wide Awake to edit the young people's publication for Mr. S. S. McClure, but the magazine was never the same, and shortly after was merged into St. Nicholas Magazine. Pratt then became editor of Little Men and Women.[4][5]

In 1877, she married Charles Stuart Pratt, the associate editor of Wide Awake.[6]

Selected works
  • Anna Maylie (1873)
  • A little woman : a story for other little women (1873)
  • Anna Maylie : a story of work. (1873)
  • A Girl’s Money (1874)
  • A White Hand (1875)
  • Mrs. Hurd's niece : six months of a girl's life (1876)
  • The doll doctor, and other stories, (1877)
  • Wide awake pleasure book. (1877)
  • Sugar plums (1877)
  • Good-for-Nothing Polly (1877)
  • Little Miss Mischief and her happy thoughts (1878)
  • The children's almanac for 1879-80-81-82-83 (1878)
  • How two girls tried farming ... (1879)
  • The Home primer (1882)
  • Nursery primer (1882)
  • Rosabell's adventure (1883)
  • Christmas snowflakes (1883)
  • Yule tide (1884)
  • Polly himself (1886)
  • The cooking club of Tu-whit Hollow (1886)
  • Wide awake (1889)
  • All the world over : interesting stories of travel, thrilling adventure and home life (1892)
  • Mrs. White's party : and other stories (1894)
  • A dozen darlings and their doings (1898)
  • The play lady : a story for other girls (1900)
  • The Little Cave-Dwellers (1901)
  • "Chicken little" : picture guessing story for little children (1903)
  • The little owls at Red Gates (1903)
  • Dear little Sheila : a picture guessing story for children (1905)
  • Grandma Crosby's household. A story for girls. [With plates.]. (1907)
  • Happy children : a book of bed-time stories (1911)

References
  1. The Little Cave-Dwellers
  2. Literary Century 1893, p. 395.
  3. "The Story of Wide Awake", Wide Awake, August, 1893
  4. Willard, Winslow & White 1897, p. 296.
  5. "Ella Farman Pratt (1837-1907). Ayres, ed. 1917. The Reader's Dictionary of Authors". www.bartleby.com.
  6. Mott, Frank Luther, A History of American Magazines, Volume III: 1865-1885, Harvard University Press, 1938

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