Lucy Foster Madison (April 8, 1865 – March 16, 1932) was an American novelist and teacher.
Born Lucy Foster in
Kirksville, Missouri
Kirksville is the county seat and most populous city in Adair County, Missouri. Located in Benton Township, its population was 17,530 at the 2020 census. Kirksville is home to two colleges: Truman State University and A.T. Still University.
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, the daughter of George W. Foster and Almira Parker,
she graduated from high school in
Louisiana, Missouri
Louisiana is a city in Pike County, Missouri, Pike County, Missouri, United States. The population was 3,364 at the 2010 census. Louisiana is located in northeast Missouri, on the Mississippi River, south of Hannibal, Missouri, Hannibal.
Louisiana ...
.
Her father, mother, and brother all died
while she was a teen,
leaving her to care for her two younger sisters. She became a school teacher in Louisiana, Missouri, then in
Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City (abbreviated KC or KCMO) is the largest city in Missouri by population and area. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 508,090 in 2020, making it the 36th most-populous city in the United States. It is the central ...
. In 1890 she was married to Winfield Scott Madison.
In 1893, the offer of a prize by a New York newspaper interested her enough to enter a short story and she won second place. She became a writer of both short stories and novels, plus a compiler of various
Chautauqua
Chautauqua ( ) was an adult education and social movement in the United States, highly popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Chautauqua assemblies expanded and spread throughout rural America until the mid-1920s. The Chautauqua bro ...
assemblies.
Her series of "Peggy Owens" stories and other tales for girls were popular early in the twentieth century. Her husband began to suffer ill health, so they moved to a farm near
Hudson Falls, New York
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in 1924. She died there in 1932, a few days after she had a
stroke
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.
Bibliography
* ''A maid of the first century''
(1899)
* ''A maid at King Alfred's court''
(1900)
* ''A colonial maid of old Virginia''
(1902)
* ''A daughter of the Union''
(1903)
* ''A maid of Salem Towne''
(1906)
* ''Peggy Owen, patriot: a story for girls''
(1908)
* ''Peggy Owen at Yorktown''
(1910)
* ''Bee and butterfly: a tale of two cousins''
(1913)
* ''Time's follower''
(1914)
* ''Joan of Arc: the warrior maid''
(1918)
* ''In doublet and hose: a story for girls'' (1919)
* ''Peggy Owen: a story for girls'' (1920)
* ''Lafayette'' (1921)
* ''Peggy Owen at Yorktown'' (1925)
* ''Washington'' (1925)
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1865 births
1932 deaths
19th-century American novelists
20th-century American novelists
American women novelists
People from Kirksville, Missouri
Novelists from Missouri
Schoolteachers from Missouri
American women educators
American children's writers
American women children's writers
20th-century American women writers
19th-century American women writers
People from Hudson Falls, New York
People from Louisiana, Missouri