Harriet Theresa Comstock (August 12, 1860 – 1943) was an American novelist and author of children's books.

Biography

Comstock was born to Alpheus Smith and Jean A. Downey in

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. She received an academic education in Plainfield, New Jersey. In 1885, she married Philip Comstock of Brooklyn, New York. She started writing in 1895, mostly short stories for magazines and books principally for children.

Works

* ''Molly, the Drummer Boy'' (1900) * ''A Boy of a Thousand Years Ago'' (1902) * ''A Little Dusky Hero'' (1902) * ''Then Marched the Brave'' (1904) * ''The Queen's Hostage'' (1906) * ''Janet of the Dunes'' (1908) * ''Joyce of the North Woods'' (1911) * ''A Son of the Hills'' (1913) * ''Camp Brave Pine: a camp fire girl story'' (1913) * ''The Place Beyond the Winds'' (1914) * ''The Vindication'' (1917) * ''The Man Thou Gavest'' (1917) * ''Mam'selle Jo: A Novel of the St. Lawrence Country'' (1918) * ''Unbroken Lines'' (1919) * ''The Shield of Silence'' (1921) * ''At the Crossroads'' (1922) * ''The Tenth Woman'' (1923) * ''Smothered Fires'' (1924)

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* * * * 1860 births 1943 deaths 20th-century American novelists 20th-century American women writers American children's writers American women novelists Novelists from New Jersey Novelists from New York (state) People from Nichols, New York Writers from Plainfield, New Jersey {{US-novelist-1860s-stub