Austin, Jane Goodwin (1831–1894)

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Austin, Jane Goodwin (1831–1894)

American novelist. Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, Feb 25, 1831; died in Boston on Mar 30, 1894; educated in Boston.

Often wrote of the Pilgrim fathers and early colonists of Massachusetts; writings included Fairy Dreams (1860), Moonfolk (1874), Mrs. Beauchamp Brown (1880), A Nameless Nobleman (1881), The Desmond Hundred (1882), Nantucket Scraps (1882), Standish of Standish (1889), Betty Alden (1891), and David Alden's Daughter and Other Stories (1892).

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