Rebecca Sophia Clarke

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Rebecca Sophia Clarke

Rebecca Sophia Clarke (born February 22, 1833 in Norridgewock , Maine , † August 16, 1906 there ) was an American writer .

Life

Rebecca Sophia Clarke was the daughter of Asa and Sophia Clarke. She was homeschooled, including ancient Greek and Latin. She graduated from the Female Academy of Norridgewock . She then moved to Evansville , Indiana , where she taught as a teacher for ten years. As her hearing deteriorated, she returned to her family home in Norridgewock in 1861, where she lived with her sister Sarah Jones Clarke (1840–1929), who worked as a writer under the name Penn Shirley .

In the same year she published her first story in the Memphis Appeal under the pseudonym Sophie May . With her first novel Little Prudy , which appeared in 1864, Clarke started her career as a children's book author. Her three nieces then served as inspiration for her three fictional girl characters Prudy, Susy and Dotty Dimple. By 1903 she had written 45 books.

Works

Little Prudy (1864-1868)

Little Prudy (1864), Sister Suzy (1864), Captain Horace (1864), Cousin Grace (1865), Fairy Book (1865), Dotty Dimple (1868)

Dotty Dimple (1868-1869)

Dotty Dimple at Her Grandmother’s (1868), Dotty Dimple Out West (1868), Dotty Dimple at Home (1868), Dotty Dimple at Play (1869), Dotty Dimple at School (1869), Dotty Dimple's Flyaway (1869)

Little Prudy's Flyaway (1870–1873)

Little Folks Astray (1870), Prudy Keeping House (1870), Aunt Madge's Story (1871), Little Grandmother (1872), Little Grandfather (1873), Miss Thistledown (1873)

Flaxie Frizzle (1876-1884)

Flaxie Frizzle (1876), Doctor Papa (1877), Little Pitchers (1878), Twin Cousins (1880), Flaxie's Kittyleen (1883), Flaxie Growing Up (1884)

Little Prudy's Children (1894-1901)

Wee Lucy (1894), Jimmy Boy (1895), Kyzie Dunlee (1895), Wee Lucy's Secret (1899), Jimmy, Lucy, and All (1900), Lucy in Fairyland (1901)

Quinnebasset Girls (1871-1903)

Doctor's Daughter (1871), Our Helen (1874), Asbury Twins (1875), Quinebasset Girls (1877), Janet (1882), In Old Quinnebasset (1891), Joy Bells (1903)

Other works

  • 1887: Drones' Honey
  • 1897: Pauline Wyman
  • 1897: The Champion's Diamonds

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personal data
SURNAME Clarke, Rebecca Sophia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Norridgewock , Maine, United States
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 1906
Place of death Norridgewock , Maine, United States