Martha Stone Hubbell (1814 – August 1856) was an American author.

Biography

She was born in

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, in 1814; died in

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, in 1856. She was the daughter of Dr. Noah Stone, and married Reverend Stephen Hubbell (1802–1884) in 1832. She wrote children's stories for the American and Massachusetts Sunday school Union, and ''The Shady Side, or Life in a Country Parsonage, by a Pastor's Wife'' (Boston, 1853). This was intended as a counterpart to ''The Sunny Side'' by

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward (August 31, 1844January 28, 1911) was an early feminist American author and intellectual who challenged traditional Christian beliefs of the afterlife, challenged women's traditional roles in marriage and family, an ...

(1815–1852) and 40.000 copies were sold in a year.

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1814 births 1856 deaths People from Oxford, Connecticut American women novelists 19th-century American women writers 19th-century American novelists Novelists from Connecticut American children's writers American women children's writers {{US-novelist-1810s-stub