Fannie Ostrander

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
  • Little Pixies Abroad, 1905
  • Goose Family Tales, 1905
  • Little White Indians, 1907
  • The Boy Who Won

– derived from [4]

References
  1. "United States Census, 1910". FamilySearch. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  2. "Beautiful Bible stories: gems from the Holy Book reset for children". Worldcat.org. Retrieved 2017-01-13.
  3. Albert Nelson Marquis (1915). 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. A.N. Marquis & Company. pp. 807–.
  4. Men and Women of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries. L.R. Hamersly. 1909. pp. 1275–.


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