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Mabel Fuller Blodgett (1869 – 1959) was a novelist and writer of children's books.


Biography

Born on April 10, 1869, as Mabel Louise Fuller in
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, she was the daughter of Ransom Burritt Fuller and Louise White. Her father became the president of two insurance companies in Boston. She graduated from the Sacred Heart Convent at Elmhurst in
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, and wrote her first novel ''At the Queen’s Mercy'' (1897) at the age of 19. Her subsequent works include: * ''The Aspen Shade: A Romance'' (1889) * ''Fairy Tales'' with illustrations by
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(Boston, 1896) * ''A Mother's Prayer'' (1900) * ''The Giant's Ruby and Other Fairy Tales'' (1903) * ''When Christmas Came Too Early'' (1912) * ''The Strange Story of Mr. Dog and Mr. Bear'' (1915) * ''Peasblossom: The Adventures of the Pine Tree Fairy and Others'' (1917) * ''The Magic Slippers'' (1917) She also published a non-fiction work, ''The Life and Letters of Richard Ashley Blodgett, First Lieutenant United States Air Service'' in 1919. Richard Blodgett was her son, and he was killed in action during World War I (1918). Blodgett was living with her husband, attorney Edward E. Blodgett, in
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by 1897, when Richard was born. She is buried in
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in
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* 1869 births 1959 deaths 19th-century American novelists 20th-century American novelists American women novelists Writers from Bangor, Maine Writers from Brookline, Massachusetts Writers from Providence, Rhode Island Novelists from Massachusetts 20th-century American women writers 19th-century American women writers Novelists from Maine {{US-writer-stub